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    Challenges→An adequate public conception of justice for modern democratic societies must not rely on controversial claims about human good and human flourishing

    In modern societies that secure wide freedoms, people embrace many opposed conceptions of how to live and what is choiceworthy in human life

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    A third feature of the capability approach that has elicited criticism is the idea that knowledge of human flourishing and what facilitates it must inform the identification of an adequate equality norm. The worry in a nutshell is that in modern societies that secure wide freedoms, people will embrace many opposed conceptions of how to live and of what is choiceworthy in human life. These are matters about which we must agree to disagree. At least if an ideal of equality is being constructed to

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