At the level of theory and principles, most theorists of justice endorse the view that justice is done if all have equal genuine opportunities, or if all reach a minimal threshold of capability levels.
The potential influence of the school is therefore substantial, presumably especially so for those students who lack a certain threshold of capabilities when starting in higher education.
For this reason the role of society and government is to provide different means (including life sciences innovation and policies of social and economic redistributon) in order to bring people up to at least a minimum threshold of capabilities.
The Senian perspective of distributive justice also allows for the gene-environment interaction to be taken seriously on board in order to bring people up to at least a minimum threshold of capabilities.
Hence, while the notion of capabilities refers to a very broad range of opportunities, basic capabilities refer to the real opportunity to avoid poverty or to meet or exceed a threshold of well-being.
He has a threshold of one.
It has a threshold of about $859,350.
For example, Nussbaum argues that the ten capabilities on her list, being incommensurable, cannot be traded off against one another (and, hence, have no relative weights), and also that the state should provide each citizen with a minimum threshold of each capability.
As Iran presses on with its nuclear program it comes closer and closer to Israel's red line of a threshold weapons capability.
Unless a good deal of the current infrastructure is dismantled, Iran will be able to maintain a threshold nuclear capability — that is, it will be just a few weeks, and a few screwdriver turns, from building a weapon.
Rather, they believe Iran's approach is to keep moving every piece forward until it reaches the threshold of a capability to build a number of warheads and the missiles to deliver them.
