Amartya Sen et la stratégie du Blob
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Capability, Theory, Justice, FreedomAbstract
In this article, we emphasize that, despite the often trenchant assertions of certain commentators on capability, Amartya Sen did indeed construct a theory of capability. We also underline he constructed a theory of justice. And that in the latter, capabilities are destined to play a central role. It is therefore a scientific research program in the Lakatos sense that Sen is developing. In asserting the contrary, Sen himself is using a strategy of overcoming other theories by engulfing them, making other theories special cases of his own theory. We call this the Blob strategy. However, this program is based on a conception of freedom that confuses a free person with a person with freedoms. In this sense, capability is a weak version of the capacity proposed by Ricoeur.
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