The tools
We offer these tools to the public, each one built to grow a capability.
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Earnest & Eager
Why does the economy look fine on the news but feel unaffordable at home? Why can’t we leave Instagram even though it makes us feel worse? Each essay traces why, then maps a way out we can take together.
Why capabilities
A good life is measured by what you’re actually able to do and to be.
The philosopher Martha Nussbaum asks one question of any society: what is each person really able to do and to be? Not what they own, and not what a GDP chart says, but whether they have the real freedom to live a full human life. She names ten central capabilities that every person is owed.
Tap a node to see its relationships.
The system behind the capabilities approach, after the CSL4D map: the ten central capabilities inside the boundary, and the rights, education, plans and systems thinking that feed them. Tap any node; its arrows light and read as sentences here.
After Martha C. Nussbaum, Creating Capabilities (2011), Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, and The capability approach, Aristotle, and the systems approach (CSL4D, 2018), which joins the three.
A life worth living isn’t built alone.
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