Frontiers of Justice : Disability, Nationality, Species Membership / Martha C. Nussbaum.
2022
HM671 ǂb N87 2006eb
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Frontiers of Justice : Disability, Nationality, Species Membership / Martha C. Nussbaum.
Author
Nussbaum, Martha C., author.
ISBN
9780674041578
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (512 p.)
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10.4159/9780674041578 doi
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HM671 ǂb N87 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.011
Summary
Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, Frontiers of Justice is dedicated to this proposition. Taking up three urgent problems of social justice neglected by current theories and thus harder to tackle in practical terms and everyday life, Martha Nussbaum seeks a theory of social justice that can guide us to a richer, more responsive approach to social cooperation. The idea of the social contract-especially as developed in the work of John Rawls-is one of the most powerful approaches to social justice in the Western tradition. But as Nussbaum demonstrates, even Rawls's theory, suggesting a contract for mutual advantage among approximate equals, cannot address questions of social justice posed by unequal parties. How, for instance, can we extend the equal rights of citizenship-education, health care, political rights and liberties-to those with physical and mental disabilities? How can we extend justice and dignified life conditions to all citizens of the world? And how, finally, can we bring our treatment of nonhuman animals into our notions of social justice? Exploring the limitations of the social contract in these three areas, Nussbaum devises an alternative theory based on the idea of "capabilities." She helps us to think more clearly about the purposes of political cooperation and the nature of political principles-and to look to a future of greater justice for all.
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Tanner lectures on human values : 31
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Social Contracts and Three Unsolved Problems of Justice
2. Disabilities and the Social Contract
3. Capabilities and Disabilities
4. Mutual Advantage and Global Inequality: The Transnational Social Contract
5. Capabilities across National Boundaries
6. Beyond "Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Nonhuman Animals
7. The Moral Sentiments and the Capabilities Approach
Notes
References
Index
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Social Contracts and Three Unsolved Problems of Justice
2. Disabilities and the Social Contract
3. Capabilities and Disabilities
4. Mutual Advantage and Global Inequality: The Transnational Social Contract
5. Capabilities across National Boundaries
6. Beyond "Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Nonhuman Animals
7. The Moral Sentiments and the Capabilities Approach
Notes
References
Index