Capabilities in a Just Society: A Theory of Navigational Agency

ISBN-13: 9781108473262 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 276 str.

Rutger Claassen

Opis

A new theory of social justice arguing that people have rights to the core human capabilities necessary for 'navigational agency'.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Positioning the Capability Approach In Political Theory: 1. Liberalism: combining perfectionism and neutrality; Part II. The Theory of Navigational Agency: 2. An agency-based capability theory of justice; 3. Justifying the right to navigational agency; 4. The distribution of capabilities; Part III. Three Sets of Basic Capabilities: 5. Empowerment capabilities and civil freedom; 6. Subsistence capabilities and socio-economic justice; 7. Political capabilities and democracy; Conclusion.