Human dignity in the capability approach

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23169727
AutoresRomy Claassen (0000-0001-7314-4986, Utrecht University, autor de correspondencia), Rutger Claassen
Año2014
Páginas240-249
Fecha de publicación2014-04-10
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaCambridge Handbook of Human Dignity (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511979033.030
OpenAlexW2489020100
ISBN9780511979033
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas14

The capability approach is a broad normative approach which has been developed from the 1980s onwards, most prominently by economist Amartya Sen and philosopher Martha Nussbaum. In the philosophical context, the main use of the approach is to assess the justice of social arrangements: societies are just to the extent that they guarantee each citizen an entitlement to his or her basic capabilities. In more recent years, Nussbaum has emphasized the fact that the capability approach is a human rights approach, and has begun to ground her version of the approach in a specific concept of human dignity. In this chapter, I will first briefly summarize the main concepts used in the capability approach, and then present Nussbaum's concept of dignity as a grounding of that approach. Finally, I will criticize this way of using the concept of dignity and raise some questions.

Capability approach · Context (archaeology) · Dignity · Economic Justice · Engineering ethics · Entitlement (fair division) · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Human rights · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Social justice · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Human Rights and Development · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics