Abstract
The paper examines Amartya Sen’s seminal work Development and Freedom (1999) in relation to his underlying conception of justice and particularly in relation to the tension that arises in the correlation between basic freedom and basic goods. The idea is to address the question as to which of the two elements (basic goods or basic freedoms) takes precedence to the enactment of global justice. The paper advances a particular distinction between a foundational approach and a functional approach when addressing the question of the priority and primacy of any of the two elements and sheds light on a contentious answer, namely, that basic goods are foundationally primary in relation to basic freedoms and that such a primacy does not rule out the functional priority of basic freedoms.
Highlights
Amartya Sen (1999) provides a very suggestive analysis of the relationship between development and freedom that helps bringing to light the above alternatives, contributing to the aim of providing a more comprehensive account global justice in line of the sufficiency threshold claim
It is my contention that it is not enough to say that basic goods and basic freedoms constitute the whole of global justice without accounting for the tensions and conflicts that arise in such a composition
With all of this in mind, the paper inspects the combination of basic goods and basic freedoms that serves as the basis to defending the idea of global justice
Summary
Amartya Sen (1999) provides a very suggestive analysis of the relationship between development and freedom that helps bringing to light the above alternatives, contributing to the aim of providing a more comprehensive account global justice in line of the sufficiency threshold claim. My interpretative proposal stresses the specificity of basic goods and basic freedoms and raises the question of priority and primacy of any of the two different variables in question (this is against the co-substantiality approach mentioned earlier in the paper and in view of the relevant task of making sense of the idea of global justice).
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