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Frontiers of Justice:

Disability, Nationality, Species Membership
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Harvard University Press, Jun 30, 2009 - 487 pages
Theories of social justice, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, Frontiers of Justice is dedicated to this proposition. Taking up three urgent problems of social justice--those with physical and mental disabilities, all citizens of the world, and nonhuman animals--neglected by current theories and thus harder to tackle in practical terms and everyday life, Martha Nussbaum seeks a theory of social justice that can guide us to a richer, more responsive approach to social cooperation.
  

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Review: Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership

User Review  - Kony - Goodreads

An ambitious and important book. Taking Rawls as a point of departure, Nussbaum argues that all of humanity is obligated -- collectively -- to support the dignified flourishing of all living creatures ... Read full review

Review: Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership

User Review  - Michelle Schwarze - Goodreads

An interesting expansion/modification of justice as fairness to tackle concern for the physically and mentally disabled, global justice and animals. It seems to me that Nussbaum tries to have her cake ... Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
1
Social Contracts and Three Unsolved Problems of Justice
9
ii Three Unsolved Problems
14
iii Rawls and the Unsolved Problems
22
iv Free Equal and Independent
25
v Grotius Hobbes Locke Hume Kant
35
vi Three Forms of Contemporary Contractarianism
54
vii The Capabilities Approach
69
The TwoStage Contract Reaffirmed and Modified
238
iv Justification and Implementation
255
v Assessing the TwoStage Contract
262
Beitz and Pogge
264
vii Prospects for an International Contractrarianism
270
Capabilities across National Boundaries
273
ii Why Capabilities?
281
iii Capabilities and Rights
284

viii Capabilities and Contractarianism
81
ix In Search of Global Justice
92
Disabilities and the Social Contract
96
ii Prudential and Moral Versions of the Contract Public and Private
103
Primary Goods Kantian Personhood Rough Equality Mutual Advantage
107
iv Postponing the Question of Disability
108
v Kantian Personhood and Mental Impairment
127
Kittay and Sen
140
vii Reconstructing Contractarianism?
145
Capabilities and Disabilities
155
ii The Bases of Social Cooperation
156
Aristotelian not Kantian
159
iv The Priority of the Good the Role of Agreement
160
v Why Capabilities?
164
vi Care and the Capabilities List
168
vii Capability or Functioning?
171
viii The Charge of Intuitionism
173
ix The Capabilities Approach and Rawlss Principles of Justice
176
The Species Norm
179
The Question of Guardianship
195
Education and Inclusion
199
The Work of Care
211
xiv Liberalism and Human Capabilities
216
Mutual Advantage and Global Inequality The Transnational Social Contract
224
The TwoStage Contract Introduced
230
iv Equality and Adequacy
291
v Pluralism and Toleration
295
vi An International Overlapping Consensus?
298
The Role of Institutions
306
What Institutions?
311
ix Ten Principles for the Global Structure
315
Beyond Compassion and Humanity Justice for Nonhuman Animals
325
Indirect Duties Duties of Compassion
328
iii Utilitarianism and Animal Flourishing
338
Extending the Capabilities Approach
346
Theory and Imagination
352
vi Species and Individual
357
No Nature Worship
366
viii Positive and Negative Capability and Functioning
372
ix Equality and Adequacy
380
x Death and Harm
384
xi An Overlapping Consensus?
388
The Capabilities List
392
xiii The Ineliminability of Conflict
401
xiv Toward a Truly Global Justice
405
The Moral Sentiments and the Capabilities Approach
408
Notes
417
References
451
Index
463
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Philosophy Now
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About the author (2009)

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Among her many publications is Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (OUP 1990).

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TitleFrontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, ISSN 0275-7656
AuthorMartha C. NUSSBAUM
Editionillustrated, annotated
PublisherHarvard University Press, 2009
ISBN0674041577, 9780674041578
Length487 pages
  
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