Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (621 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674072359 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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A theoretically solid yet emmeniently practical foundation for policies that address racism and police contributions to racism Happy Poet Professor Nussbaum offers an admirably clear approach that could go a long way to solving our USA race problems. Having just witnessed the police murder in North Carolina, it’s clear we need a strong anti-racial position that is also strong on law and order. The law and order element has to have two sides of a difficult coin to divide: (1) one side where the police stop crime and murder perpetrated against the poor ad blacks, out of which the violent criminals often comes; (2) of equal weight in practice, a law and order which insists on the arrest and co. Addam M Smith said Painfully verbose to the point that the message is almost entirely lost. I have the utmost respect for the exploration of philosophy, and my own ideologies align rather closely with that of the author. However, This book is the perfect example of why academia and philosophy often fail to reach the mainstream in a way that would make a meaningful impact. It seems a rather pointless exercise to write a book so painfully redundant in building a framework, and so pontificating in it's delivery, that only people that are already completely versed on the Capabilities Approach - or in my case, a student held hostage by his GPA - can manage. Nussbaum vs. Sen, + refinement of view in light of recent objections Matt Mitterko Creating Capabilities is a significant achievement. Nussbaum has managed to accomplish four major tasks with her book, any of which would have made this a good book: write an accessible version of the Capabilities Approach; clearly differentiate her view from Amartya Sen's, who stands as the standard bearer of the approach; address some common criticisms of the Capabilities Approach that have arisen over the past decade; and to synthesize a large portion of her work over the past 15 or so years into a coherent whole.The territory she covers is very familiar to
. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Martha C
That slowdown makes her ideas relevant for rich people, too. She analyzes the life of a woman in India by taking a close look at her situation to see what capabilities and opportunities she--and women like her--might have. (Henry Richardson, Georgetown University)A marvelous achievement: beautifully written and accessible. Dignified life in the rich world isn't only about being "well-fed," eitherEven amid a slowdown, there are other dimensions in which life can keep improving. For readers who enjoy economics laced with humanity. Mason Choice 2011-10-01) . The key is not to look simply at the hand they've been dealt, but whether their particular society affords them opportunities to win with it. (S. Elsen Library Journal 2011-03-01)In her new book, Creating Capabilities, the philosopher and legal scholar Martha Nussbaum a
In our era of unjustifiable inequity, Nussbaum shows howby attending to the narratives of individuals and grasping the daily impact of policywe can enable people everywhere to live full and creative lives.. Creating Capabilities, however, affords anyone interested in issues of human development a wonderfully lucid account of the structure and practical implications of an alternate model. It demonstrates a path to justice for both humans and nonhumans, weighs its relevance against other philosophical stances, and reveals the value of its universal guidelines even as it acknowledges cultural difference. She and her colleagues begin with the simplest of questions: What is each person a