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The Capabilities Approach and Ethical Cosmopolitanism: A Response to Noah Feldman

Martha C. Nussbaum

In a world filled with unjust inequalities, it is fitting that theorists should be turning their attention to the ethical ideal known as “cosmopolitanism,” a view that holds that our loyalties and our ethical duties ought to transcend the local and even the national, focusing on the needs of hum…