Volume 56 No.2 - 2010-06-30

On M. Nussbaum’s Capability Approach to Justice and Its Application to Education

論M. Nussbaum「能力取向」的正義觀與教育發展

Author:
Chun-Ping Wang / 王俊斌
Keyword:
capability approach, justice, contract, functioning, educational development / 能力取向、正義、契約論、功能運作、教育發展
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This article attempts to analyze Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach to justice, explain her criticism and renewed idea about the exceptive situations of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, and apply her view to education in hope of actualizing true justice. According to these aims the author first discusses Nussbaum’s theoretical argument about Rawls’s justice theory on the basis of Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership. Second, the author illustrates the un-justice issues of impairment (or disability), nationality, and sufferings of non-human species. Finally, the author raises three alternative versions of justice for the sake of further educational development. These include “to enhance the happiness of the disadvantaged and satisfy their educational needs,” “to use the capability approach to modify the GNP comparative model of international evaluation of educational achievements,” and “to fulfill reasonable limitation on satisfaction of capability functioning and eco-citizenship education.”