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== How Does This Model of Liberties Relate to the Capability Approach?==
 
== How Does This Model of Liberties Relate to the Capability Approach?==
 
[[Amartya Sen]]'s and [[Martha Nussbaum]]'s ideas of [[Capabilty Approach]] are prescriptive oughts based on ideas of the kind of lives people would have reason to value.  This model attempts to be descriptive of what is, not an ought.  The chosen capabilities would be realized as liberties in the model's sense.
 
[[Amartya Sen]]'s and [[Martha Nussbaum]]'s ideas of [[Capabilty Approach]] are prescriptive oughts based on ideas of the kind of lives people would have reason to value.  This model attempts to be descriptive of what is, not an ought.  The chosen capabilities would be realized as liberties in the model's sense.
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== Development Versus Abandonment ==
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Liberty can be classified as two types: development and abandonment.  Development increases freedoms, while abandonment ("negative liberty") leaves people with whatever they have, no matter how insufficient.
  
 
== Why We Need To Choose Which Liberties We Value ==
 
== Why We Need To Choose Which Liberties We Value ==

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