- Lived:
- Born 1947, New York City · Harvard, Brown, and since 1995 the University of Chicago
- Tradition:
- Contemporary Aristotelian; the capability approach; philosophy of the emotions; public philosophy
- The Big Idea:
- A good human life is fragile — dependent on luck, love, and the world — and justice means asking of every single person one question: what is each person able to do and to be?
- In their words:
- "What is each person able to do and to be?"
- If you remember one thing:
- She took the two things modern moral philosophy had thrown out — vulnerability and emotion — and rebuilt ethics, politics, and development economics around them.