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    Real freedom consists in being able to pursue combination... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The capability approach requires a comprehensive or holistic assessment of which sets of capabilities are simultaneously open to a person.

    Real freedom consists in being able to pursue combinations of functionings, not merely individual functionings in isolation.

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    Thus, according to the capability approach, the ends of well-being freedom, justice, and development should be conceptualized in terms of people’s capabilities. Moreover, what is relevant is not only which opportunities are open to me each by themselves, hence in a piecemeal way, but rather which combinations or sets of potential functionings are open to me. For example, suppose I am a low-skilled poor single parent who lives in a society without decent social provisions. Take the following func

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