Component |
Description |
Examples |
Frameworks |
More Frameworks |
Ethical Environment |
Moral Constructs : Spheres of justice where distribution takes place according to context-dependent rules (Rules) |
Basic Moral Concepts : rights, duties, goods, values, virtues, responsibility, and justice |
Utilitarianism : Happiness is tied to maximizing the satisfaction of aggregated preferences. |
Basic Capabilities : life, bodily health, bodily integrity |
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Social Constructs : Power and its distribution among groups and individuals |
Intermediate Moral Concepts : Privacy, Property, Informed Consent, Free Speech, due Process, Safety/Risk |
Rights : Capacities of action that are essential to autonomy, vulnerable to standard threats, and correlated with feasible duties |
Cognitive Capabilities : Sense, Imagination, Thought; Emotion; Practical Reason |
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Right : A right is a capacity of action, essential to autonomy, that others are obliged to recognize and respect. |
Privacy : If the information is directly relevant to the relation to the holder and the seeker, then it is not private. |
Virtues : Settled dispositions toward choosing the mean between extremes of excess and defect. (Courage is the mean between cowardice and recklessness) |
Social Capabilities : Affiliations, Other Species |
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Duty : A duty is a principle that obliges us to recognize and respect the rights of others. |
Property : That with which I mix my labor is mine. Intellectual property is non-rivalrous and non-excludable. |
Capabilities Approach : For Nussbaum, capabilities answer the question, “What is this person able to do or be?” For Sen, capabilities are “‘substantial freedoms,’ a set of (causally interrelated) opportunities to choose and act.” |
Capabilities that address vulnerabilities : Play and Control over one's environment |