- Abbreviations
- 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
THE TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES
Frontiers of Justice
Disability, Nationality, Species Membership
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- 2008 David and Elaine Spitz Prize, International Conference for the Study of Political Thought
- Martha Nussbaum Is Winner of the 2021 Holberg Prize • 2018 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture • 2016 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy
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