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Title: Capability Egalitarianism and Moral Selfhood
Author(s): ALEXANDER, John M.
Journal: Ethical Perspectives
Volume: 10    Issue: 1   Date: 2003   
Pages: 3-21
DOI: 10.2143/EP.10.1.503868

Abstract :
Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum advocate that a person’s quality of life and equal standing in society should be evaluated in terms of capabilities rather than utility, income or resources.

In this article, I critically examine the concept of the person that underpins the capability approach. I argue that the ideal of equality of capability articulates a ‘non-utilitarian’ and ‘non-liberal’ view of the self.

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