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Martha Nussbaum: Capabilities: 3 key ideas
The core ideas of Martha Nussbaum: Capabilities, each in under a minute, written in our own words. Want the full depth? Get the book.
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- IDEA 1 OF 3
A list of central capabilities
Nussbaum lists essentials such as life, health, education, play and political voice that every person should have.
A just society secures a threshold of each.
- IDEA 2 OF 3
Emotions in public life
She argues that emotions like compassion are needed for a decent society.
Public institutions can nurture them.
- IDEA 3 OF 3
Women and development
Her fieldwork, including in India, shows how gender shapes capabilities.
Policy must look at what each person can actually do.
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