Central capabilitarian theories of well-being focus exclusively on actual opportunities to attain states of being and doing that people have reason to value. Consequently, these theories characterise ...

This article clarifies how the freedom of thought as a human right can be understood and promoted as a right of mental health service users, especially people with psychotic disorder, by using Martha ...

When societal progress is viewed primarily in terms of the overall increase in economic wealth, the human need for membership and meaningful participation soon loses salience in public policy debates ...

ST. AMBROSE UNIVERSITY PRESENTS ‘CAPABILITIES APPROACH’ LECTURE ON JUSTICE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES DAVENPORT, Iowa—On Thursday, April 14, renowned lecturer and social system reformer Martha ...

Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, has been awarded the 2015 Inamori Ethics Prize by the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at ...

(Bergen, Norway): Today, the Holberg Prize--one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology--named American ...

Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, has been awarded the 2015 Inamori Ethics Prize by the Inamori International Center ...

"Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people ...