With this quote Amartya Sen begins his book: The Idea of Justice: “In the little world where children exist,” says Pip in Charles' Great Expectations Dickens, “there is nothing so well perceived and felt as injustice”. (Sen, 2009: p: vii). In 1979 Amartya Sen presented the capabilities approach as an alternative and improvement to the primary social goods approach provided by John Rawls. And also to preference satisfaction and ideas of real income as measures of well-being for the purposes of justice. in his lecture at Stanford University entitled “Equality of What”. Sen argued that if people were fundamentally very similar, then an index of primary goods might be a good way to judge advantage. But in reality people seem to have different needs that vary depending on education, health, longevity and climatic conditions. It is therefore a question not only of ignoring some cases, but also of neglecting very widespread and real differences (sen 1980 PP: 215-216). He also believes that people have (adaptive) preferences not because they believe their realization will satisfy their interests, but because their circumstances have distorted their true interests. If the social structure will allow them to realize their aspiration. Some people have preferences that are easy to satisfy because they had a response to injustice, while others may have the opposite because they failed to exercise restrictions on their aspirations (Sen, 1999, PP:62-63). Furthermore, Sen expresses his objection to using real income as a measure of well-being. People have differences in their ability to convert money into well-being and primary goods. Because people have differences to have control over it, such as disability...... middle of paper ......obeyns (2004), Justice as Fairness and the Capability Approach.Nussbaum, M. (2006 ), Frontiers of justice: disability, nationality, species membership. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.Nussbaum, M. (2000) Women and Human Development. The capabilities approach (Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press). Rawls, J. (2001) Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (Cambridge, Harvard University Press). Sen, A. (2009). The idea of justice. London: Penguin.Sen, A. (1999), Development as Freedom, Oxford: Oxford University PressSen, A. (1980) “Equality of what?” S. McMurrin (ed.) Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Walker, M. (2003), Framing Social Justice In Education: What Does The Capabilities Approach Offer?, British Journal of Educational Studies, ISSN 0007 - 1005 vol. 51, no. 2, June 2003, pp 168-187
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