Many thanks for being there yesterday. It was great to see
you all!
The reading for the next session is:
Amartya Sen, 'Capability and Well-being', Chapter 2 of The
Quality of Life edited by Sen and Nussbaum, 1993.
Date: 10 January 2012
(Tuesday)
Time: 3.00 pm - 5.00 pm
Venue: Room 56, First Floor, Arts Faculty
Building, University of Delhi
Reading/lecture questions
1. What is meant by 'advantage'?
2. What does Sen mean by 'capabilities', 'capability',
well-being freedom, well-being achievement, agency freedom, agency achievement?
3. Which goods constitute advantage?
4. Why is it capabilities that matter most for distributive
justice?
Discussion questions
1. Who is to decide which capabilities are valuable?
Experts? The people?
2. For Germans, eating well might involve rye bread, not
rotis, while for Indians, eating well might involve rotis, but not rye bread.
How can there be a single capability, if there is no single standard for its
achievement?
3. Nussbaum's challenge: Don’t we need a single list of all
essential capabilities?
4. Sen has discussed only individual capabilities. Aren’t
group capabilities also important – for instance the capability of a tribal or
ethnic group to maintain their culture?
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