Feel/Think/Act
The removal of "unfreedom"
In Development as Freedom (1999), Amartya Sen proposes that:
"Development requires the removal of major sources of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states."
Sen explains that when we neglect these things, it contributes to 'unfreedom' by limiting individuals' real opportunities and capabilities. True development and justice are achieved not just through economic growth but by expanding people's actual freedoms and abilities to pursue the lives they have reason to value. Unequal or fragmented provision of these rights and opportunity is a barrier to this vision of justice.