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What do we owe animals?
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Capabilities Approach to Human Development
For many years, I've been trying to urge that a good normative theory of society's development when we're ranking societies is what we call the capabilities approach. Now capabilities don't mean skills; they mean substantive opportunities for choice. So it focuses up close on the strivings of people and then asks, what are they actually able to do and to be? And the answer to that question is the capability set that that person has.
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