Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice The Capability Approach Re-Examined, 2017a

3. Clarifications 89
3.1 Introduction 89
3.2 Refining the notions of ‘capability’ and ‘functioning’ 90
3.2.1 Capability as an opportunity versus capability 91
as an opportunity set
3.2.2 Nussbaum’s terminology 92
3.2.3 What are ‘basic capabilities’? 94
3.2.4 Conceptual and terminological refinements 96
3.3 Are capabilities freedoms, and if so, which ones? 98
3.3.1 Capabilities as positive freedoms? 99
3.3.2 Capabilities as opportunity or option
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freedoms?
3.3.3 Are capabilities best understood as freedoms? 106
3.4 Functionings or capabilities? 107
3.5 Human diversity in the capability approach 113
3.6 Collective capabilities 115
3.7 Which notion of wellbeing is used in the capability 118
approach?
3.7.1 The aim and context of accounts of wellbeing 119
3.7.2 The standard taxonomy of philosophical 121
wellbeing accounts
3.7.3 The accounts of wellbeing in the capability 125
approach
3.8 Happiness and the capability approach 126
3.8.1 What is the happiness approach? 127
3.8.2 The ontological objection 129
3.8.3 Mental adaptation and social comparisons 130
3.8.4 Comparing groups 133
3.8.5 Macro analysis 134
3.8.6 The place of happiness in the capability
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approach