Frontiers of justice : disability, nationality, species membership / Martha C. Nussbaum.

By:

Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Tanner lectures on human values (Cambridge, Mass.)Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press : Harvard University Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 487 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674041578
0674041577

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Frontiers of justice.DDC classification:

320.01/1 22

LOC classification:

HM671 .N87 2006eb

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70.08

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Contents:

Social contracts and three unsolved problems of justice -- Disabilities and the social contract -- Capabilities and disabilities -- Mutual advantage and global inequality : the transnational social contract -- Capabilities across national boundaries -- Beyond "compassion and humanity" : justice for nonhuman animals -- The moral sentiments and the capabilities approach.

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Summary: The idea of the social contract is one of the most powerful approaches to social justice in the Western tradition. Exploring the limitations of the social contract, Nussbaum devises an alternative theory based on the idea of capabilities as an approach to social co-operation.

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The idea of the social contract is one of the most powerful approaches to social justice in the Western tradition. Exploring the limitations of the social contract, Nussbaum devises an alternative theory based on the idea of capabilities as an approach to social co-operation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-462) and index.

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