Beyond Equality of What: Sen and neutrality
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Based on a close reading of the debate between Rawls and Sen on primary goods versus capabilities, I argue that liberal theory cannot adequately respond to Sen’s critique within a conventionally neutralist framework. In support of the capability approach, I explain why and how it defends a more robust conception of opportunity and freedom, along with public debate on substantive questions about well-being and the good life. My aims are: (i) to show that Sen’s capability approach is at odds with Rawls’s political liberal version of neutrality; (ii) to carve out a third space in the neutrality debate; and (iii) to begin to develop, from Sen’s approach, the idea of public value liberalism as a position that falls within that third space.
2021 ◽
Vol 10
(2)
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pp. 59-73
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2017 ◽
Vol 18
(1)
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pp. 136-137
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2005 ◽
Vol 21
(1)
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pp. 89-108
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Neural correlates of the ‘good life’: eudaimonic well-being is associated with insular cortex volume
2013 ◽
Vol 9
(5)
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pp. 615-618
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