{"id":124,"date":"2010-11-30T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/iwmc\/?p=124"},"modified":"2010-11-30T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:17:12","slug":"central-human-capabilities-nussbaum-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/iwmc\/2010\/11\/30\/central-human-capabilities-nussbaum-m\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;central human capabilities,&#8221;  Nussbaum, M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<div>Martha Nussbaum and Jim Sterba share strong commitments to feminism and to policy relevant philosophical reflection.\u00a0\u00a0 See Nussbaum, &#8220;Women and Human Development, The Capabilties Approach.&#8221;\u00a0 Cambridge. 2000.\u00a0\u00a0 Along with colleague Amartya Sen, she has proposed a cross-culturally valid list of basic human capabilities:<\/div>\n<div>\u20221.\u00a0 Able to live to the end of a human life of normal length.<\/div>\n<div>\u20222.\u00a0 Having good health, nourishment, shelter, reproductive health<\/div>\n<div>\u20223.\u00a0 Physical integrity: mobility, freedom from abuse, coercion.\u00a0\u00a0 Access to sexual satisfaction, choice in reproduction.<\/div>\n<div>\u20224.\u00a0\u00a0 Ability to think and express oneself in work and activity of one\u2019s choice \u00a0 (religion, math, science, literature, music)<\/div>\n<div>\u20225.\u00a0\u00a0 Freedom from fear and anxiety; capability for emotional expression, \u00a0 freedom to love, grieve, experience longing, gratitude, justified anger<\/div>\n<div>\u20226.\u00a0 Capability to form and critically reflect upon one\u2019s conception of the \u00a0 good, capability to form a plan of life; liberty of conscience.<\/div>\n<div>\u20227.\u00a0 Affiliation, assembly.\u00a0 Social basis of self-respect. Capacity for \u00a0 empathic engagement in social interaction, friendship;\u00a0 protection against discrimination on basis of race, sex, sexual \u00a0 orientation, religion, caste, ethnicity, national origin<\/div>\n<div>\u20228.\u00a0 Able to live with concern for and in relation to the world of nature.<\/div>\n<div>\u20229.\u00a0 Play.\u00a0 Being able to enjoy recreational activities.<\/div>\n<div>\u202210.\u00a0 Control<\/div>\n<div>\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Political participation.\u00a0 Right to own property; equal employment opportunities; freedom\u00a0 from unwarranted search and seizure.<\/div>\n<div>She views access to opportunities for development of each and everyone of these ten capabilities as having sufficient rank to limit trade-offs and cost\/benefit analyses.<\/div>\n<div>Her position raises a number of policy relevant questions for Jim:\u00a0 &#8220;Is equality a necessary condition for opportunity to develop these capabilities?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Are such opportunities likely to be equally weighted by rich and poor?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>By the way,\u00a0 I&#8217;m embarrassed by my earlier crack about Lazarus and the pyramids.<\/div>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Nussbaum and Jim Sterba share strong commitments to feminism and to policy relevant philosophical reflection.\u00a0\u00a0 See Nussbaum, &#8220;Women and Human Development, The Capabilties Approach.&#8221;\u00a0 Cambridge. 2000.\u00a0\u00a0 Along with colleague Amartya Sen, she has proposed a cross-culturally valid list of basic human capabilities: \u20221.\u00a0 Able to live to the end of a human life of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/iwmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/iwmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/iwmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/iwmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/iwmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/iwmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/iwmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/iwmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/iwmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/iwmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}