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Frontiers of Justice : Disability, Nationality, Species Membership

eBook, English, 2009
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2009
1 online resource (512 pages).
9780674041578, 0674041577
1041149998
Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Social Contracts and Three Unsolved Problems of Justice; i. The State of Nature; ii. Three Unsolved Problems; iii. Rawls and the Unsolved Problems; iv. Free, Equal, and Independent; v. Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant; vi. Three Forms of Contemporary Contractarianism; vii. The Capabilities Approach; viii. Capabilities and Contractarianism; ix. In Search of Global Justice; 2. Disabilities and the Social Contract; i. Needs for Care, Problems of Justice; ii. Prudential and Moral Versions of the Contract; Public and Private. Iii. Rawls's Kantian Contractarianism: Primary Goods, Kantian Personhood, Rough Equality, Mutual Advantageiv. Postponing the Question of Disability; v. Kantian Personhood and Mental Impairment; vi. Care and Disability: Kittay and Sen; vii. Reconstructing Contractarianism?; 3. Capabilities and Disabilities; i. The Capabilities Approach: A Noncontractarian Account of Care; ii. The Bases of Social Cooperation; iii. Dignity: Aristotelian, not Kantian; iv. The Priority of the Good, the Role of Agreement; v. Why Capabilities?; vi. Care and the Capabilities List; vii. Capability or Functioning? Viii. The Charge of Intuitionismix. The Capabilities Approach and Rawls's Principles of Justice; x. Types and Levels of Dignity: The Species Norm; xi. Public Policy: The Question of Guardianship; xii. Public Policy: Education and Inclusion; xiii. Public Policy: The Work of Care; xiv. Liberalism and Human Capabilities; 4. Mutual Advantage and Global Inequality: TheTransnational Social Contract; i. A World of Inequalities; ii. A Theory of Justice: The Two-Stage Contract Introduced; iii. The Law of Peoples: The Two-Stage Contract Reaffirmed and Modified; iv. Justification and Implementation. V. Assessing the Two-Stage Contractvi. The Global Contract: Beitz and Pogge; vii. Prospects for an International Contractrarianism; 5. Capabilities across National Boundaries; i. Social Cooperation: The Priority of Entitlements; ii. Why Capabilities?; iii. Capabilities and Rights; iv. Equality and Adequacy; v. Pluralism and Toleration; vi. An International "Overlapping Consensus"?; vii. Globalizing the Capabilities Approach: The Roleof Institutions; viii. Globalizing the Capabilities Approach: WhatInstitutions?; ix. Ten Principles for the Global Structure. 6. Beyond "Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Nonhuman Animalsi. "Beings Entitled to Dignified Existence"; ii. Kantian Social Contract Views: Indirect Duties, Duties of Compassion; iii. Utilitarianism and Animal Flourishing; iv. Types of Dignity, Types of Flourishing: Extending the Capabilities Approach; v. Methodology: Theory and Imagination; vi. Species and Individual; vii. Evaluating Animal Capabilities: No NatureWorship; viii. Positive and Negative, Capability and Functioning; ix. Equality and Adequacy; x. Death and Harm; xi. An Overlapping Consensus?
Xii. Toward Basic Political Principles: The Capabilities List