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  • 11 - The place of capability in a theory of justice

    • By Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor at Harvard University
  • Edited by Harry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ingrid Robeyns, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
  • Book:
    Measuring Justice
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    28 January 2010, pp 239-253

  • Summary

    The intellectual interest in, and practical relevance of, comparative questions about justice as and when they can be answered, has driven the search for justice in the world, even when the political slogans have often invoked the excellence of perfectly just societies. Ingrid Robeyns and Harry Brighouse have skillfully explained the basic ideas of primary goods and capabilities, and why it might be at all plausible that either or both of them can serve as the basis of assessing and comparing the respective overall advantages that different persons have. They have also discussed why and how these two different informational perspectives compete with each other as material for distributional judgments. Thomas Pogge has presented a strongly combative defense of the case for using resources rather than capabilities as the basis for the principles of justice.