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They are part of our heritage and part of what gives value to human life.
The worry is that any list we draw up will reflect one rather specific, perhaps sectarian understanding of what gives value and meaning to life, an understanding that other people might reasonably reject.
First, already in On What Gives Value to Life, and then especially in the Soliloquies, he argues against the (latter) idea of uniformity in ethics -- instead asserting, in the spirit of Herder (and others influenced by Herder, such as Goethe, Schiller, and the romantics), the value of diversity or individuality even in the moral sphere.
This position is already articulated in On What Gives Value to Life (1792-3); is is central to On Religion (1799) and the Soliloquies (1800), in the form of a commitment to the Herderian ideal of "humanity"; and it survives in later works (e.g. in the 1831 lecture on Leibniz's idea of a universal language).
However, as can already be seen from his early unpublished essays On the Highest Good (1789) and On What Gives Value to Life (1792-3), Schleiermacher's strategy is in other respects defined more by opposition to than by agreement with Kant's.
In short, the worry is that the capabilities approach will either be too abstract to be of any use, or else will be insufficiently neutral as between different reasonable ethical conceptions (conceptions, that is, of what gives value and meaning to life).
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