ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the philosophical discussion in World Hunger and Moral Obligation, and innumerable subsequent texts and anthologies in applied ethics, committed what Whitehead called "the fallacy of misplaced conereteness." It describes moral foundations to interpretative and strategic concepts. The chapter describes food availability and food entitlements to capabilities and a capabilities-based model of development. Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen give four reasons for expanding the perspective on hunger to include capabilities as well as food and entitlements: individual variability, social variability, diverse means to nourishment, nourishment as a means to other good goals. As Dreze and Sen argue, "seeing hunger as entitlement failure points to possible remedies as well as helping their to understand the forces that generate hunger and sustain it".
