Human Flourishing and Foucauldian Ethics of Freedom

In attempting to delineate some complementarities between the Capability Approach of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum and the later work of Michel Foucault, it will be suggested that attending to the philosophical proximities highlighted is of use to a practical, developmental application of the Capability Approach: to its operationalization.
Ways in which these two worlds of thought meet will be considered and an epistemological  ‘bridge’ will be utilized as necessary for a sufficient linkage towards use and value in operationalization: namely the ‘developmental power’ of C.B. Macpherson. It is considered that this third idea aids in conceptually uniting the two useful approaches of Foucault’s ethics and aesthetics of existence and Sen and Nussbaum’s flourishing of functionings for practical realization of ethical democratic modes of existence. It is suggested that one or the other falls short of application in the real world, without a necessary conceptual combination.
Some mention of a possible unrecognised genealogy of the thought of Amartya Sen is also made, with reference to ways in which Hindu and Greek philosophy interact and the possible meanings of this for the Capability Approach.