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Or by stating that being able to have a good health is a central human capability, the list implies that minimum levels of public health provision should be put in place. Nussbaum’s perfectionism remains nonetheless a liberal version of perfectionism, in the sense that the task of development policy is to promote not some fundamental features of human life (functionings) directly, but rather, opportunities to exercise choices which may lead to such functionings. It is up to each individual to choose whether she shall make use of these opportunities or not.
G. capability to maintain welfare institutions), will have important long term consequences for the whole country. Moreover, even if people might collectively have strong reasons to choose and value certain capabilities and undertake the necessary actions to provide the conditions for these capabilities (for example, they might decide that each person should have the capability to be healthy and take the necessary actions to provide free public health services for all), they might face constraints which make them unable actually to choose what they have good reasons to choose and value.
Yet, although Nussbaum’s capability approach shows much less faith in a freedom-based definition of human well-being than Sen’s, it still retains some faith. The substantial list of central human capabilities is left vague, allowing for plural and local specification according to democratic processes (provided that the outcome be compatible with the elements of the vague list), and capabilities, not functionings, are the adequate political goals. 2 A political form of liberalism Since the mid-1990s, Nussbaum has shifted the overall perspective of her capability approach considerably (Nussbaum, 1997a, 1998a, b, 1999, 2000a,c).