It argues that we can view the capability approach to be underpinned by an account of well-being which takes the endorsement of valuable functionings as constitutive of well-being, and by a particular view of the way in which endorsement relates to force and choice. This paper defends the capability approach from this criticism. The emphasis was placed on economic efficiency without assigning any obvious importance to fundamental freedoms, individual agencies and human rights. This article illustrates Amartya Sens capability. Cohen, according to whom the capability approach either uses too expansive a definition of freedom or rests on an implausibly active, indeed “athletic,” view of well-being. Key words: Human development, capability approach, freedom, Amartya Sen. The 'opportunity aspect of freedom' concerns the opportunity to have access to various combinations of valuable beings and doings (functionings) and to choose among them. Sen's emphasis on freedom has been criticised by G. In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Freedom comprises two aspects: the 'opportunity aspect' and the 'process aspect' (Sen 2002, Chapters 20-22, 2009: 228-230). Sen holds that a person's capability identifies that person's effective freedom to achieve valuable states of beings and doings, or functionings, and that freedom so understood, rather than achieved functionings themselves, is the primary evaluative space. A central question for assessing the merits of Amartya Sen's capability approach as a potential answer to the “distribution of what”? question concerns the exact role and nature of freedom in that approach.

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