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If a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indicators, can we ever grasp how the world's billions of individuals are really managing? In this powerful critique, Martha Nussbaum argues that our dominant theories of development have given us policies that ignore our most basic human needs for dignity and self-respect. For the past twenty-five years, Nussbaum has been working on an alternate model to assess human development: the Capabilities Approach. She and her colleagues begin with the simplest of questions: What is each person actually able to do and to be? What real opportunities are available to them? The Capabilities Approach to human progress has until now been expounded only in specialized works. Creating Capabilities, however, affords anyone interested in issues of human development a wonderfully lucid account of the structure and practical implications of an alternate model. It demonstrates a path to justice for both humans and nonhumans, weighs its relevance against other philosophical stances, and reveals the value of its universal guidelines even as it acknowledges cultural difference. In our era of unjustifiable inequity, Nussbaum shows how--by attending to the narratives of individuals and grasping the daily impact of policy--we can enable people everywhere to live full and creative lives.

Social justice --- Economic development --- Women's rights --- Economic development. --- Social justice. --- Women's rights. --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- sociale filosofie --- filosofie --- General ethics --- maatschappijkritiek --- Economics --- politieke filosofie --- economie --- WOMEN'S RIGHTS -- 323.39 --- SOCIAL JUSTICE -- 323.39 --- Justice sociale --- Développement économique --- Femmes --- Droits --- Rights of women --- Women --- Human rights --- Equality --- Justice --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- Maatschappij --- WOMEN'S RIGHTS -- 323.39 --- Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Human Rights.

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Hoe komt het dat sommige kranten de moord op 77 jonge Noren toeschreven aan islamitische extremisten, totdat duidelijk werd dat een rechtse terrorist de dader was? Waarom werden in Zwitserland, een land van vier minaretten, middels een referendum deze bouwwerken verboden? Hoe kan het dat het plan voor een cultureel centrum voor moslims op Manhattan leidde tot een verhit politiek debat in de Verenigde Staten?In haar nieuwe boek analyseert Martha Nussbaum een groot aantal voorbeelden van intolerantie ten opzichte van religieuze minderheden - en dan met name ten opzichte van moslims. Ze laat zien dat in al deze gevallen angst voor het andere en onbekende een belangrijke drijfveer is. Geïnspireerd door de filosofie, geschiedenis en literatuur formuleert zij een uitweg uit de greep van de angst. Respect voor andermans gewetensvrijheid is daarbij van cruciaal belang, en de bereidheid anderen te gunnen wat we voor onszelf verlangen

Social ethics --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- #SBIB:316.331H300 --- Godsdienst en samenleving: algemeen --- Filosofie --- Godsdienst --- Angsten --- Onverdraagzaamheid --- Islam in het Westen --- Politie --- Angst --- Islam --- Oudheid --- China --- Psychologie --- Sociologie --- Romeinse Rijk --- Hellenisme --- Griekenland --- Hellas --- Architectuur --- Man --- Film --- Literatuur --- Muziek --- Schilderkunst --- Cultuur --- Tekenkunst --- Erfelijkheidsleer --- Stadssamenleving --- Verpleegkunde --- Vlaanderen --- Vlaams --- Emigratie --- Volwassene --- Vrouw

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"Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an injury without anger. To not feel anger in those cases would be considered suspect. Is this how we should think about anger, or is anger above all a disease, deforming both the personal and the political? In this wide-ranging book, Martha C. Nussbaum, one of our leading public intellectuals, argues that anger is conceptually confused and normatively pernicious. It assumes that the suffering of the wrongdoer restores the thing that was damaged, and it betrays an all-too-lively interest in relative status and humiliation. Studying anger in intimate relationships, casual daily interactions, the workplace, the criminal justice system, and movements for social transformation, Nussbaum shows that anger's core ideas are both infantile and harmful. Is forgiveness the best way of transcending anger? Nussbaum examines different conceptions of this much-sentimentalized notion, both in the Jewish and Christian traditions and in secular morality. Some forms of forgiveness are ethically promising, she claims, but others are subtle allies of retribution: those that exact a performance of contrition and abasement as a condition of waiving angry feelings. In general, she argues, a spirit of generosity (combined, in some cases, with a reliance on impartial welfare-oriented legal institutions) is the best way to respond to injury. Applied to the personal and the political realms, Nussbaum's profoundly insightful and erudite view of anger and forgiveness puts both in a startling new light."--Provided by publisher.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Social psychology --- Anger. --- Forgiveness. --- Gerechtigkeit. --- Gesellschaft. --- Moral. --- PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. --- Politik. --- Verzeihung. --- Wut. --- Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophy / ethics & moral philosophy.

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Women in development --- Women --- Femmes dans le développement --- Femmes --- Femmes dans le développement

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"Philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world"--Jacket.

Education, Humanistic --- Democracy and education --- Philosophy --- Democracy and education. --- Pedagogiek en onderwijskunde --- Philosophy. --- fundamentele pedagogiek. --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Political systems --- General ethics --- Educational systems. Teaching systems --- training --- burgerparticipatie --- education --- maatschappelijke vorming --- citizen participation --- onderwijsfilosofie --- humanities --- democracies --- wijsgerige pedagogiek --- onderwijsorganisatie --- 37.001 --- Education and democracy --- Education --- 37.001 Filosofie van opvoeding en onderwijs --- Filosofie van opvoeding en onderwijs --- Nussbaum, Martha --- Sociale wetenschappen --- Verenigde Staten --- Onderwijsfilosofie --- Waardevorming --- Onderwijs --- Democratie --- Sociale wetenschap --- Media --- Opvoeding --- Pedagogiek --- Statistische gegevens --- Sport --- Education, Humanistic - Philosophy