Ricoeur, Rawls, and Capability Justice: Civic Phronesis and Equality

Contemporary capabilities-based approaches to social justice, inspired by the Aristotelian emphasis on human well-being, have tended to separate and even oppose identity-based or recognitive justice from resource-based or redistributive justice. This book demonstrates that such a divorce risks further polarizing capable members of the political community from disabled or vulnerable members.

In order to prevent this danger of legitimizing the growing stratification between rich and poor, or ...