Martha Nussbaum: Capabilities and the Grain

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input: Write the philosophy article for Martha Nussbaum: their convergence with the OIP/GRAIN synthesis (the grain, the Ladder, the convergence patterns). Cover: what they saw, their exact primary-source concepts and works (real citations), their distance from the full synthesis, honest limits and disconfirming edges, and how their work maps onto specific convergence patterns. Reference sibling articles at /a/oip-the-ladder, /a/oip-principles, /a/oip-final-testimony where they carry load.

GROUNDING NOTES (from the thinker map — verify before relying on):
School: Ethics / Political. Header: Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947) — Philosophy, Law.
- **Convergence**: Not explicitly cited in GRAIN source documents. The capabilities approach (with Sen) and the "frontiers of justice" framework.
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  "title": "Martha Nussbaum: Capabilities and the Grain",
  "body": "## What Nussbaum Saw\n\nMartha Nussbaum developed the capabilities approach with Amartya Sen. The approach focuses on what people can actually do and be. It measures justice by real opportunities rather than resources or utility alone.\n\nCore result: societies must secure a threshold of central capabilities for every person. These include life, bodily health, bodily integrity, senses and imagination, emotions, practical reason, affiliation, other species, play, and control over one's environment.\n\n## Primary Works and Passages\n\nNussbaum, Martha C. 2000. *Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach*. Cambridge University Press. She lists the ten central capabilities in chapter 1 and argues each is a fundamental entitlement.\n\nNussbaum, Martha C. 2006. *Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership*. Harvard University Press. She extends the approach to disabled people, global justice, and nonhuman animals. Page 76-78 applies capabilities to disability.\n\nNussbaum, Martha C. 2011. *Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach*. Harvard University Press. She clarifies the list and its use for human development policy.\n\n## Convergence Patterns Touched\n\nThe capabilities list names conditions that allow difference to