Habilitation, health, and agency : a framework for basic justice / Lawrence C. Becker.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: viii, 195 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 019991754X
- 9780199917549
- 320.011 23
- JA79 .B35 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-189) and index.
Habilitation and basic justice -- Health, healthy agency and the health metric -- Healthy agency and the norms of basic justice -- Relevance, influence and prejudice revisited.
"Lawrence C. Becker introduces an unconventional set of background ideas for future philosophical work on normative theories of basic justice. The organizing concept is habilitation - the process of equipping a person or thing with functional abilities or capacities. The specific proposals drawn from the concept of habilitation are independent of any particular set of distributive principles. The result is a framework for theory that includes a metric for the pursuit of basic justice, but not a normative theory of it."--Dust jacket.
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