Nonetheless, there are various senses in which Nussbaum’s approach remains, like Sen’s, First of all, when she advances her list of central human capabilities, ‘incomplete’. Nussbaum invariably reminds us that her list is open-ended. As she puts it: consider the list ‘I as open-ended and subject to revision and rethinking in the way that any society’s account of its most fundamental entitlements is always subject to supplementation (and deletion)’ (Nussbaum, 2006, 78). As a consequence, her approach also makes space for democratic deliberation. Indeed, she also thinks that list ought to be specified in a somewhat abstract ‘the and general way, precisely in order to leave room for the activities of specifying and deliberating by citizens and their legislatures and courts’ (Nussbaum, 2006, 79). And Nussbaum states from the outset that her approach not even claim to be a complete ‘does political doctrine, since it simply specifies some necessary conditions for a decently just society, in the form of a set of fundamental entitlements of all citizens’ (Nussbaum, 2006, 155). In referring to its lack of completeness here, Nussbaum is emphasising the restricted scope of the theory. Nonetheless, Nussbaum articulates her approach so that it covers our relations with non-human animals in a way that Rawls does not, at least in A Theory of There, as we saw, Rawls initially restricted the scope of his theory and argued that Justice. even if as fairness’ might be extended to as fairness’ wider theory ‘justice ‘rightness ‘this fails to embrace all moral relationships, since it would seem to include only our relations with other persons and to leave out of account how we are to conduct ourselves toward animals and the rest of nature’. In this particular respect, Nussbaum’s account is more complete than Rawls’ early theory. Sen agree with some of the core elements of Nussbaum’s approach’ ‘capabilities which go beyond providing a perspective’? It is clear from his earlier writings that ‘general this is unlikely. Sen has earlier been critical of aspects of Rawls’ theory which Nussbaum endorses. In particular, Sen (1992, 76-79) thinks that the notion of a conception of ‘political
Nonetheless, there are various senses in which Nussbaum’s approach remains, like Sen’s, ‘incomplete’. First of all, when she advances her list of central human capabilities, Nussbaum invariably reminds us that her list is open-ended. As she puts it: ‘I consider the list as open-ended and subject to revision and rethinking in the way that any society’s account of its most fundamental entitlements is always subject to supplementation (and deletion)’ (Nussbaum, 2006, 78). As a consequence, her approach also makes space for democratic deliberation. Indeed, she also thinks that ‘the list ought to be specified in a somewhat abstract and general way, precisely in order to leave room for the activities of specifying and deliberating by citizens and their legislatures and courts’ (Nussbaum, 2006, 79). And Nussbaum states from the outset that her approach ‘does not even claim to be a complete political doctrine, since it simply specifies some necessary conditions for a decently just society, in the form of a set of fundamental entitlements of all citizens’ (Nussbaum, 2006, 155). In referring to its lack of completeness here, Nussbaum is emphasising the restricted scope of the theory. Nonetheless, Nussbaum articulates her approach so that it covers our relations with non-human animals in a way that Rawls does not, at least in A Theory of Justice. There, as we saw, Rawls initially restricted the scope of his theory and argued that even if ‘justice as fairness’ might be extended to ‘rightness as fairness’ ‘this wider theory fails to embrace all moral relationships, since it would seem to include only our relations with other persons and to leave out of account how we are to conduct ourselves toward animals and the rest of nature’. In this particular respect, Nussbaum’s account is more complete than Rawls’ early theory. Sen agree with some of the core elements of Nussbaum’s ‘capabilities approach’ which go beyond providing a ‘general perspective’? It is clear from his earlier writings that this is unlikely. Sen has earlier been critical of aspects of Rawls’ theory which Nussbaum endorses. In particular, Sen (1992, 76-79) thinks that the notion of a ‘political conception of
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