Sen's capability approach demonstrates that utility metrics systematically fail to capture functionings that resist cardinal measurement, such as dignity and political participation.
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Utility metrics(what the capability approach challenges)
Ways of measuring human well-being or satisfaction, usually by assigning numbers to things like money, pleasure, or happiness to compare them.
capability approach(Political philosophy and theories of distributive justice)
A framework for social equality that holds knowledge of human flourishing and what facilitates it must inform the identification of an adequate equality norm
dignity(Schiller's aesthetic framework contrasting dignity with grace)
The sensible expression of successfully willing to act in accordance with moral principles even at the cost of the suppression of conflicting desires and feelings, manifest in different aspects of appearance than grace.