Year: 2013
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Over the last 30 years the Indian philosopher-economist Amartya Sen\nhas developed an original normative approach to the evaluation of\nindividual and social well-being. The foundational concern of this\n‘capability approach’ is the real freedom of individuals to achieve the\nkind of lives they have reason to value. This freedom is analysed in\nterms of an individual’s ‘capability’ to achieve combinations of such\nintrinsically valuable ‘beings and doings’ (‘functionings’) as being\nsufficiently nourished and freely expressing one’s political views. In this\naccount, ‘development’ is conceived as the expansion of individuals’\ncapability, and thus as a concept tha
Author: Thomas R. Wells
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1705809414