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Introduction

1. Social Contracts and Three Unsolved Problems of Justice

i. The State of Nature

ii. Three Unsolved Problems

iii. Rawls and the Unsolved Problems

iv. Free, Equal, and Independent

v. Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant

vi. Three Forms of Contemporary Contractarianism

vii. The Capabilities Approach

viii. Capabilities and Contractarianism

ix. In Search of Global Justice

2. Disabilities and the Social Contract

i. Needs for Care, Problems of Justice

ii. Prudential and Moral Versions of the Contract; Public and Private

iii. Rawls's Kantian Contractarianism: Primary Goods, Kantian Personhood, Rough Equality, Mutual Advantage

iv. Postponing the Question of Disability

v. Kantian Personhood and Mental Impairment

vi. Care and Disability: Kittay and Sen

vii. Reconstructing Contractarianism?

3. Capabilities and Disabilities

i. The Capabilities Approach: A Noncontractarian Account of Care

ii. The Bases of Social Cooperation

iii. Dignity: Aristotelian, not Kantian

iv. The Priority of the Good, the Role of Agreement

v. Why Capabilities?

vi. Care and the Capabilities List

vii. Capability or Functioning?

viii. The Charge of Intuitionism

ix. The Capabilities Approach and Rawls's Principles of Justice

x. Types and Levels of Dignity: The Species Norm

xi. Public Policy: The Question of Guardianship

xii. Public Policy: Education and Inclusion

xiii. Public Policy: The Work of Care

xiv. Liberalism and Human Capabilities

4. Mutual Advantage and Global Inequality: The Transnational Social Contract

i. A World of Inequalities

ii. A Theory of Justice: The Two-Stage Contract Introduced

iii. The Law of Peoples: The Two-Stage Contract Reaffirmed and Modified

iv. Justification and Implementation

v. Assessing the Two-Stage Contract

vi. The Global Contract: Beitz and Pogge

vii. Prospects for an International Contractrarianism

5. Capabilities across National Boundaries

i. Social Cooperation: The Priority of Entitlements

ii. Why Capabilities?

iii. Capabilities and Rights

iv. Equality and Adequacy

v. Pluralism and Toleration

vi. An International "Overlapping Consensus"?

vii. Globalizing the Capabilities Approach: The Role of Institutions

viii. Globalizing the Capabilities Approach: What Institutions?

ix. Ten Principles for the Global Structure

6. Beyond "Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Nonhuman Animals

i. "Beings Entitled to Dignified Existence"

ii. Kantian Social-Contract Views: Indirect Duties, Duties of Compassion

iii. Utilitarianism and Animal Flourishing

iv. Types of Dignity, Types of Flourishing: Extending the Capabilities Approach

v. Methodology: Theory and Imagination

vi. Species and Individual

vii. Evaluating Animal Capabilities: No Nature Worship

viii. Positive and Negative, Capability and Functioning

ix. Equality and Adequacy

x. Death and Harm

xi. An Overlapping Consensus?

xii. Toward Basic Political Principles: The Capabilities List

xiii. The Ineliminability of Conflict

xiv. Toward a Truly Global Justice

7. The Moral Sentiments and the Capabilities Approach

Notes

References

Index