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In six pages this paper considers the distinction between self-development and self-determination as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young in her texts Justice and the Politics of Difference and Inclusion and Democracy and critiqued within the context of Martha C. Nussbaum’s Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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what human beings need to not only protect and nurture their physical bodies but also recognize the importance of the self in acquiring knowledge and deciding which actions are in
the individuals best interests. Society develops various moral values, rules, and regulations that are supposed to apply to everybody, but despite the declaration that all men are created equal,
the reality is that they are not. There are various differences - most notably gender and race - that limit free expression and access to goods and services preventing
people from acting in their own best interests. While society attempts to right the wrongs of inequality through policy, it does not always go far enough to achieve the
utopian ideal of justice for all. Correcting social inequities were the primary focuses of philosophers and feminists Iris Marion Young and Martha C. Nussbaum. Their respective works considered
existing institutions, and what needed to be changed in order to address what Young referred to as the politics of difference, and how to encourage the inclusion of all societys
members. Young outlined her social philosophy in 1990s Justice and the Politics of Difference, and in Inclusion and Democracy, published a decade later. In each, she focuses on
what she regards as the two most significant values that must be preserved if social justice is to be achieved in fact as well as theory - self-development and self-determination.
Martha C. Nussbaums main emphasis is on the various substantive freedoms she describes as the capabilities approach, which consists of ten human capabilities she believed all democracies needed to
include in order to be successful. For Iris Marion Young, structures within a democracy that encourage the domination of other groups that represent difference must be disassembled and replaced instead
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