Capabilities
Definitions
Capabilities approach is, among other aspects, a way to resolve ethical problems in management and design.
Cenci, Alessandra, and Dylan Cawthorne. ‘Refining Value Sensitive Design: A (Capability-Based) Procedural Ethics Approach to Technological Design for Well-Being’. Science and Engineering Ethics 26, no. 5 (2020): 2629–62. https://doi.org/10/gncfq8.
Questions and Challenges
Capabilities extending without evolved or cultural resistance from others or from the material/niche circumstances are not necessarily beneficial. Cf. overeating, obesity, sedentary diseases in humans and other animals. Is a better understanding of capabilities always contextual? Inclusive of dietary, spatial, sensorial (stress of sex, competition, injury, etc.) pressures in response to which the capabilities can acquire the 'right' footprint?
Shared Capabilities
How can the capabilities approach to justice apply to whole sites, biomes, ecosystems, collectives, communities, etc.? Does it need to be confined to an individual organism? Can it be typified for a species?
Sustainable ecological capacity as a 'meta-capability'?
Resilience as ecosystem capability.
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