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322Exactly and responsibly: A defense of ethical criticismPhilosophy and Literature 22 (2): 343-365. 1998.
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1Linker Aristotelismus. Rez. zu:; Gerechtigkeit oder Das gute LebenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 47 (6): 1063-1068. 1999.
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188The fragility of goodness: luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophyCambridge University Press. 2001.This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made a profound contribution to these questions, yet neither the problems nor the Greek views of them have received the attention they deserve. This book thus recovers a central dimension of Greek thought an…Read more
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15Nature, function, and capability: Aristotle on political distributionWorld Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University. 1987.
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91Hiding from humanity: Replies to Charlton, Haldane, Archard, and BrooksJournal of Applied Philosophy 25 (4): 335-349. 2008.No Abstract
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36Book review: The therapy of desire: Theory and practice in hellenistic ethics (review)Philosophy and Literature 20 (2). 1996.
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10. Quentin Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes Quentin Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (pp. 820-823)In Stephen Everson (ed.), Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 1998.
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84Skeptic purgatives: Therapeutic arguments in ancient skepticismJournal of the History of Philosophy 29 (4): 521-557. 1991.
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84Introduction to the symposium on Eva Kittay'sHypatia 17 (3): 194-199. 2002.: In this commentary on Eva Feder Kittay's Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency, I focus on Kittay's dependency theory. I apply this theory to an analysis of women's inadequate access to high-quality, cost-effective healthcare. I conclude that while quandaries remain unresolved, including getting men to do their share of dependency work, Kittay's book is an important and original contribution to feminist healthcare ethics and the development of a normative feminist ethic of ca…Read more
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257Essays on Aristotle's De anima (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1995 [1992].Bringing together a group of outstanding new essays on Aristotle's De Anima, this book covers topics such as the relation between soul and body, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought, which present the philosophical substance of Aristotle's views to the modern reader. The contributors write with philosophical subtlety and wide-ranging scholarship, locating their interpretations firmly within the context of Aristotle's thought as a whole.u.
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"This story isn't true": Poetry, goodness, and understanding in Plato's phaedrusIn J. M. E. Moravcsik & Philip Temko (eds.), Plato on Beauty, Wisdom, and the Arts, Rowman & Littlefield. 1982.
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122Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the LawPrinceton University Press. 2004.Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, in the law.Martha Nussbaum argues that we should be wary of these emotions because they are associa…Read more
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1Bernard Williams : tragedies, hope, justiceIn Daniel Callcut (ed.), Reading Bernard Williams, Routledge. 2008.
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50Passions & perceptions: studies in Hellenistic philosophy of mind: proceedings of the Fifth Symposium Hellenisticum (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1993.The philosophers of the Hellenistic schools in ancient Greece and Rome (Epicureans, Stoics, Sceptics, Academics, Cyrenaics) made important contributions to the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology. This volume, which contains the proceedings of the Fifth Symposium Hellenisticum, describes and analyses their contributions on issues such as: the nature of perception, imagination and belief; the nature of the passions and their role in action; the relationship between mind and body; …Read more
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99Language and Logos: Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy Presented to G. E. L. Owen (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1982.The essays in this volume were written to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of G. E. L. Owen, who by his essays and seminars on ancient Greek philosophy has made a contribution to its study that is second to none. The authors, from both sides of the Atlantic, include not only scholars whose main research interests lie in Greek philosophy, but others best known for their work in general philosophy. All are pupils or younger colleagues of Professor Owen who are indebted to his practice of philosophi…Read more
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346Transitional AngerJournal of the American Philosophical Association 1 (1): 41--56. 2015.ABSTRACT ABSTRACT: A close philosophical analysis of the emotion of anger will show that it is normatively irrational: in some cases, based on futile magical thinking, in others, based on defective values
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137Virtue Ethics: The Misleading CategoryAreté. Revista de Filosofía 11 (1): 533-571. 1999.La ética de la virtud es frecuentemente considerada una categoría singular de la teoría ética, y una rival del kantismo y del utilitarismo. Considero que es un error, puesto que tanto kantianos como utilitaristas pueden tener, y tienen, un interés en las virtudes y en la formación del carácter. Mas, aun si focalizamos el grupo de teóricos de la ética, comúnmente llamados "teóricos de la virtud", porque rechazan la dirección tanto del kantismo como del utilitarismo y se inspiran en la ética grieg…Read more
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119Invisibility and recognition: Sophocles' philoctetes and Ellison's invisible manPhilosophy and Literature 23 (2): 257-283. 1999.
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909Compassion: The Basic Social EmotionSocial Philosophy and Policy 13 (1): 27. 1996.Philoctetes was a good man and a good soldier. When he was on his way to Troy to fight alongside the Greeks, he had a terrible misfortune. By sheer accident he trespassed in a sacred precinct on the island of Lemnos. As punishment he was bitten on the foot by the serpent who guarded the shrine. His foot began to ooze with foul-smelling pus, and the pain made him cry out curses that spoiled the other soldiers' religious observances. They therefore left him alone on the island, a lame man with no …Read more
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Applying the Lessons of Ancient Greece Martha C. NussbaumFilms for the Humanities & Sciences. 1989.
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Language and Logos Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy Presented to G.E.L. Owen /Edited by Malcolm Schofield and Martha Craven Nussbaum. --. -- (review)Cambridge University Press, 1982. 1982.
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2Therapeutic Arguments and the Structures of DesireIn Genevieve Lloyd (ed.), Feminism and History of Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2002.