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155. Public Philosophy and International FeminismIn Anne Applebaum (ed.), What is Philosophy?, Yale University Press. pp. 121-152. 2001.
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IntroductionIn Martha C. Nussbaum & Amélie Oksenberg Rorty (eds.), Essays on Aristotle's de Anima, Oxford University Press Uk. 1992.This introduction provides a description of the manuscripts of the De Anima; commentaries on the De Anima; and its links with other works such as Metaphysics, Physics, the biological treatises, and the ethical works. The agenda of the De Anima is discussed, and three general positions concerning the materiality of the psuchē are identified. Recent interpretations of the De Anima are then considered.
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436Is Nietzsche a political thinker?International Journal of Philosophical Studies 5 (1). 1997.Nietzsche claimed to be a political thinker in Ecce Homo and elsewhere. He constantly compared his thought with other political theorists, chiefly Rousseau, Kant and Mill, and he claimed to offer an alternative to the bankruptcy of Enlightenment liberalism. It is worthwhile re-examining Nietzsche's claim to offer serious criticisms of liberal political philosophy. I shall proceed by setting out seven criteria for serious political thought: understanding of material need; procedural justification…Read more
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92Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, JusticeOxford University Press. 2016.In this volume based on her 2014 Locke Lectures, Martha C. Nussbaum provides a bracing new view that strips the notion of forgiveness down to its Judeo-Christian roots, where it was structured by the moral relationship between a score-keeping God and penitent, self-abasing, and erring mortals.
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167Love's knowledge: essays on philosophy and literatureOxford University Press. 1990.This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, explore such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledg…Read more
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10"Finely Aware and Richly Responsible": Literature and the Moral ImaginationOxford University Press. 1990.
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74Book review: Poetic justice: The literary imagination and public life (review)Philosophy and Literature 21 (1). 1997.
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260Wuthering heights: The romantic ascentPhilosophy and Literature 20 (2): 362-382. 1996.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Wuthering Heights: The Romantic AscentMartha NussbaumI“If I were in heaven, Nelly,” she said, “I should be extremely miserable.”“I dreamt, once, that I was there.... [H]eaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out, into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights, where I woke sobbing for joy.” 1Cathy’s soul cannot live in th…Read more
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215Radical evil in the Lockean state: The neglect of the political emotionsJournal of Moral Philosophy 3 (2): 159-178. 2006.All modern liberal democracies have strong reasons to support an idea of toleration, understood as involving respect, not only grudging acceptance, and to extend it to all religious and secular doctrines, limiting only conduct that violates the rights of other citizens. There is no modern democracy, however, in which toleration of this sort is a stable achievement. Why is toleration, attractive in principle, so difficult to achieve? The normative case for toleration was well articulated by John …Read more
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2Internal criticism and Indian rationalist traditionsWorld Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University. 1987.
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329Exactly 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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200The fragility of goodness: luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophyCambridge University Press. 1986.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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86Skeptic 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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266Essays 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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131Hiding 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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100Language 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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359Transitional 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