Amartya sen’s vision on the components of human well-being in society
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https://doi.org/10.18172/brocar.1574Keywords:
Capabilities, agency, democracy, justice, marketAbstract
Amartya K. Sen’s vision is that it is the extent to which the various individual capabilities are achieved, and the actual possibility to achieve them, what defines not only each person’s activity and situation, but also the level of development of the society that she is a member of. In other words, a person is ‘multimotivated’ by her various goals in life, and not only by utilitarian happiness. This vision has far-reaching consequences in relation first with democracy as the best political principle to guarantee an ongoing informed public debate and the expansion of individual capabilities; second, with the variability in the results of the market as an allocation mechanism when considering capabilities, and third, with the use of individual capabilities as a technique of comparative justice that could become a part of a comprehensive theory of justice.Downloads
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