Frontiers of Justice
by Nussbaum, Martha C.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-04-30
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Summary
Taking up three urgent problems of social justice neglected by current theories and thus harder to tackle in practical terms and everyday life, Martha Nussbaum seeks a theory of social justice that can guide us to a richer, more responsive approach to social cooperation. Book jacket.
Table of Contents
| Abbreviations | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Social Contracts and Three Unsolved Problems of Justice | p. 9 |
| The State of Nature | p. 9 |
| Three Unsolved Problems | p. 14 |
| Rawls and the Unsolved Problems | p. 22 |
| Free, Equal, and Independent | p. 25 |
| Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant | p. 35 |
| Three Forms of Contemporary Contractarianism | p. 54 |
| The Capabilities Approach | p. 69 |
| Capabilities and Contractarianism | p. 81 |
| In Search of Global Justice | p. 92 |
| Disabilities and the Social Contract | p. 96 |
| Needs for Care, Problems of Justice | p. 96 |
| Prudential and Moral Versions of the Contract; Public and Private | p. 103 |
| Rawls's Kantian Contractarianism: Primary Goods, Kantian Personhood, Rough Equality' Mutual Advantage | p. 107 |
| Postponing the Question of Disability | p. 108 |
| Kantian Personhood and Mental Impairment | p. 127 |
| Care and Disability: Kittay and Sen | p. 140 |
| Reconstructing Contractarianism? | p. 145 |
| Capabilities and Disabilities | p. 155 |
| The Capabilities Approach: A Noncontractarian Account of Care | p. 155 |
| The Bases of Social Cooperation | p. 156 |
| Dignity: Aristotelian, not Kantian | p. 159 |
| The Priority of the Good, the Role of Agreement | p. 160 |
| Why Capabilities? | p. 164 |
| Care and the Capabilities List | p. 168 |
| Capability or Functioning? | p. 171 |
| The Charge of Intuitionism | p. 173 |
| The Capabilities Approach and Rawls's Principles of Justice | p. 176 |
| Types and Levels of Dignity: The Species Norm | p. 179 |
| Public Policy: The Question of Guardianship | p. 195 |
| Public Policy: Education and Inclusion | p. 199 |
| Public Policy: The Work of Care | p. 211 |
| Liberalism and Human Capabilities | p. 216 |
| Mutual Advantage and Global Inequality: The Transnational Social Contract | p. 224 |
| A World of Inequalities | p. 224 |
| A Theory of Justice: The Two-Stage Contract Introduced | p. 230 |
| The Law of Peoples: The Two-Stage Contract Reaffirmed and Modified | p. 238 |
| Justification and Implementation | p. 255 |
| Assessing the Two-Stage Contract | p. 262 |
| The Global Contract: Beitz and Pogge | p. 264 |
| Prospects for an International Contractrarianism | p. 270 |
| Capabilities across National Boundaries | p. 273 |
| Social Cooperation: The Priority of Entidements | p. 273 |
| Why Capabilities? | p. 281 |
| Capabilities and Rights | p. 284 |
| Equality and Adequacy | p. 291 |
| Pluralism and Toleration | p. 295 |
| An International "Overlapping Consensus"? | p. 298 |
| Globalizing the Capabilities Approach: The Role of Institutions | p. 306 |
| Globalizing the Capabilities Approach: What Institutions? | p. 311 |
| Ten Principles for the Global Structure | p. 315 |
| Beyond "Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Nonhuman Animals | p. 325 |
| "Beings Entitled to Dignified Existence" | p. 325 |
| Kantian Social Contract Views: Indirect Duties, Duties of Compassion | p. 328 |
| Utilitarianism and Animal Flourishing | p. 338 |
| Types of Dignity, Types of Flourishing: Extending the Capabilities Approach | p. 346 |
| Methodology: Theory and Imagination | p. 352 |
| Species and Individual | p. 357 |
| Evaluating Animal Capabilities: No Nature Worship | p. 366 |
| Positive and Negative, Capability and Functioning | p. 372 |
| Equality and Adequacy | p. 380 |
| Death and Harm | p. 384 |
| An Overlapping Consensus? | p. 388 |
| Toward Basic Political Principles: The Capabilities List | p. 392 |
| The Ineliminability of Conflict | p. 401 |
| Toward a Truly Global Justice | p. 405 |
| The Moral Sentiments and the Capabilities Approach | p. 408 |
| Notes | p. 417 |
| References | p. 451 |
| Index | p. 463 |
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Excerpts
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