John M Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER J M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Capabilities and Social Justice
The capability approach to social justice construes a person's well-being in terms of the substantive freedoms people value. John Alexander engages with the rapidly growing body of literature on the capability approach in economics, inequality, poverty measurement and development studies. Critically assessing Sen and Nussbaum's work in normative economics, social ethics and political philosophy, Alexander develops a unified vision of the capabili…
Ending the liberal hegemony
Non-Reductionist Naturalism
Capabilities, human rights and moral pluralism
Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, the pioneers of the capability approach, have divergent views on human rights. Sen considers human rights to be a set of goals towards which every society could progress. In contrast, Nussbaum thinks of human rights as side constraints and as non-negotiable fundamental entitlements for international standard-setting and national public policy debates. The article critically examines the difference between these tw…
Capability Egalitarianism and Moral Selfhood
Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum advocate that a person’s quality of life and equal standing in society should be evaluated in terms of capabilities rather than utility, income or resources. In this article, I critically examine the concept of the person that underpins the capability approach. I argue that the ideal of equality of capability articulates a ‘nonutilitarian’ and ‘non-liberal’ view of the self.
Capabilities, human rights and moral pluralism
Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, the pioneers of the capability approach, have divergent views on human rights. Sen considers human rights to be a set of goals towards which every society could progress. In contrast, Nussbaum thinks of human rights as side constraints and as non-negotiable fundamental entitlements for international standard-setting and national public policy debates. The article critically examines the difference between these tw…
Ending the liberal hegemony
Capability Egalitarianism and Moral Selfhood
Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum advocate that a person’s quality of life and equal standing in society should be evaluated in terms of capabilities rather than utility, income or resources. In this article, I critically examine the concept of the person that underpins the capability approach. I argue that the ideal of equality of capability articulates a ‘nonutilitarian’ and ‘non-liberal’ view of the self.
Capabilities, human rights and moral pluralism
Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, the pioneers of the capability approach, have divergent views on human rights. Sen considers human rights to be a set of goals towards which every society could progress. In contrast, Nussbaum thinks of human rights as side constraints and as non-negotiable fundamental entitlements for international standard-setting and national public policy debates. The article critically examines the difference between these tw…
Non-Reductionist Naturalism
Ending the liberal hegemony
Capabilities and Social Justice
The capability approach to social justice construes a person's well-being in terms of the substantive freedoms people value. John Alexander engages with the rapidly growing body of literature on the capability approach in economics, inequality, poverty measurement and development studies. Critically assessing Sen and Nussbaum's work in normative economics, social ethics and political philosophy, Alexander develops a unified vision of the capabili…
Law (5 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)