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Capability Association

Agency, Well-Being and Justice

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  1. What are HD & the CA?

    …man lives? The CA does not give a blueprint on how to act to transform the world so that all may live flourishing human lives, let alone to give a blueprint of what it means to flourish as a human being – although some interpretation of CA, such as Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, develop a more specific idea of human flourishing and the institutional arrangements to bring it about. But however one interprets it, CA leaves each one of us t…

  2. In Memoriam – Hans Uwe Otto

    …ine and broadly equal access to the material and social means necessary to live flourishing lives. Both underscore that all people everywhere should be equally empowered to contribute to the collective control of the conditions and decisions which affect their common fate. While Hans Uwe was convinced that the capabilities approach and the HDCA could gain from critical social science, his work was centred on achieving a political stand in relation…

  3. In Memoriam – Stephan Klasen

    …Stephan will be missed inconsolably by his wife Christine, four children, Lukas, Nicolas, Sophia, and Jeremias, and by innumerable friends, students and colleagues, the world over. But the greatest loss is for the better world that he sought unrelentingly. – Sanjay G. Reddy        …

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