ABSTRACT
Martha Nussbaum, an American philosopher, begins her work at the convergence of humanity's social nature to build an argument forward towards human equality, flourishing and entitlements through her specific development of the capabilities approach. The power of the argument comes from the social aspects of humanity, particularly in the settings of social justice, as the obvious point of intersection between most if not all meta and comprehensive accounts of the human condition. This chapter explores one of these aspects of her work presented primarily in Frontiers of Justice, that is, Nussbaum's sympathetic leaning towards the tradition of Hugo Grotius a Dutch jurist his exploration of natural sociability as a response to particular advantage-based social contract traditions and realist constructions of international relations. Nussbaum argues that these kinds of theories, in varying degrees, are overly focused on the autonomous individuality agency, rationality and individual advantage seeking of individual moral agents. The capability approach demands a great deal from human beings.
