Abstract

Although Amartya Sens's capability approach initially emerged in the academic area as a critique of normative and ethical economic foundations, especially welfare economics in the 1980s, it has been employed extensively in the context of human development. One of the main concerns of this approach was the marginalization of human beings from the axis of development and well-being and its main critique to others was to consider humans as passive beings. Some critics have suggested that, although this approach attempted to introduce a new concept of human beings in the economic area, it could not go beyond the current economical human of economics and it just provided a more humane conception of development than development for human beings. The majority of criticisms of the anthropological basis of the Sens approach include three critiques of misinterpretation of human notion, being pre-socio political and methodological individualism. This paper it's attempted to response to these three critiques based on the definition of agency which Sen has expanded in his approach and then design a theoretical-philosophical agency for misinterpretation anthropological foundation of the capability approach by the transition from the agency (of actors) to citizenship.