Rights, goals, and capabilities
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Human Rights and Capabilities
The two concepts — human rights and capabilities — go well with each other, so long as we do not try to subsume either concept entirely within the territory of the other. There are many human rights that can be seen as rights to particular capabilities. However, human rights to important process freedoms cannot be adequately analysed within the capability framework. Furthermore, both human righ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Politics, Philosophy & Economics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1470-594X,1741-3060
DOI: 10.1177/1470594x12447787