Ética de las capacidades e interpretación de los principios de justicia

• Autores: Francesco Biondo
• Localización: Quaderns de Filosofia i Ciència, ISSN-e 0213-5965, Nº. 38, 2008, págs. 87-99
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • Capability approach can be considered a liberal and concrete outlook to questions of distributive justice.

    In this paper, I try to offer a short critical assessment of Sen�s approach, starting with his criticisms against utilitarianism and Rawlsian justice as fairness. Sen succeeds in offering us a concrete outlook to discrimination;

    yet, he does not clarify how to spot adaptive preferences and how liberal governments should cope with cases of persistent inequalities. In this respect Sen�s theory is still incomplete. This incompleteness proves that the content of a political doctrine depends on the interpretation of its principles of distributive justice when difficult cases come to the fore.