life. In addition to the ordinary adult human functionings, basically the functionings Sen mentions, the new approach … includes a group of higher human functionings which are called overall human functioning. To adequately assess a person's or a … society's well-being, it is necessary to consider both people's ordinary (or lower) functionings and their overall (or higher …

utility with functionings and capabilities. While the origins of this “capabilities approach” go back to the works of John … to achieve different functionings. While functioning is central to the notion of human well-being, it is not merely the … achieved functionings that matter but the freedom that a person has in choosing from the set of feasible functionings, which is …