Political Freedom and Practical Reason

Séverine Deneulin

Chapter 4 in The Capability Approach and the Praxis of Development, 2006, pp 87-117 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Considering people as subjects of their own lives and not passive objects of social welfare policies is central to Sen’s freedom-oriented approach to development. The expansion of the freedoms that people have reason to choose and value and the removal of unfreedoms can only be achieved through participation and democratic practice. But what guarantees that public debate and democratic practice will lead to public action that promotes human freedoms? If, for example, democratic practice leads to the election of a government which wages war and promotes environmental destruction for the sake of protecting the comfort of a high-energy consumer lifestyle, what kind of framework could the capability approach offer to assess ethically the outcomes of that decision?

Keywords: Political Community; Capability Approach; Deliberative Democracy; Deliberative Process; Nicomachean Ethic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230627253_4

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