Richardson, Henry S. - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 8 (2007) 3, pp. 389-414
Martha Nussbaum has recently argued that “the language of capabilities … gives important precision and supplementation … to the language of rights.” This claim raises the question whether the idea of capabilities, as she or as Amartya Sen has … movement. In this essay, I argue that the idea of capabilities is not useful in this way, because it cannot well capture the …