Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Women and Human Development
Nussbaum's 2000 'Women and Human Development' — the capabilities approach as feminist development ethic
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Women and Human Development (Middle-to-late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Women and Human Development
2000. Nussbaum was 53 and had been at the University of Chicago since 1995 (in joint appointments across the Law School, Philosophy, and Divinity).
Space
Women and Human Development
Chicago (Nussbaum's institutional base) and India (the fieldwork sites). The geographical-political space of the book is the bridge between American philosophical theory and Indian-development practical work.
Matter
Women and Human Development
Single philosophical-political monograph (~310 pages). Form is essay-monographic with case-study material — the two Indian women (Vasanti and Jayamma) recur across chapters as concrete points of reference.
Observer
Women and Human Development
Middle-to-late Nussbaum. The observer is the philosophical-political theorist whose fieldwork in India informs her theoretical framework — the case-study Indian women are not illustrations of the framework but partial-sources of it.
Energy
Women and Human Development
Programmatic-political-philosophical energies. The book is the most concentrated single statement of the capabilities approach.
Information
Women and Human Development
Single book of seven main chapters. The ten-capabilities list (ch. 1) is the book's central informational structure.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Definitive presentation of the capabilities approach. Continuously cited in development ethics, philosophical feminism, and political philosophy; the basis for the UN Human Development Index reforms and for ongoing debates about whether economic-monetary measures of development are adequate to human flourishing.