The American contemporary philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum decided to deal with the opposition that arose in the very beginnings of philosophy: emotion and reason. Placing emotions at the center of hers thought, she goes beyond clichés about emotions by giving them a cognitive and narrative dimension, writing about the intelligence of emotions. Her’s point of view is known as neo-Stoic and neo-Aristotelian, constantly returning in her thoughts to Aristotle and the Hellenistic schools. For Nussbaum, emotions are "evaluations or value judgments that attach great importance to things and people beyond human control for human happiness." (Nussbaum, 2019a: 17) Redefining emotions, emotions of compassion and love play a key role. Nussbaum reveals human fragility, vulnerability, and prospects into the core of the human heart. By intertwining the theory of emotions, ethics and aesthetics, literature is recognized as a mirror of human emotions more suitable for analysis than some philosophical works, questioning the relationship of these four areas that Nussbaum incorporates in her books creating her writing style, facing the fundamental questions of the possibility of a good life.