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

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press : Harvard University Press, [2006] ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 487 pages) Series The Tanner lectures on human values Tanner lectures on human values (Cambridge, Mass.) 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-462) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Social justice. People with disabilities -- Civil rights Minorities -- Civil rights. Animal rights. People with disabilities. Ethnic groups. Animal Rights Disabled Persons Ethnicity Social Justice ethnic groups. PHILOSOPHY -- Political. People with disabilities Ethnic groups Animal rights Minorities -- Civil rights People with disabilities -- Civil rights Social justice Sociale rechtvaardigheid. Sociale politiek. Sociaal contract. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674041578 0674041577

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