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70La ética de la virtud: una categoría equívocaAreté. Revista de Filosofía 11 (1): 573-613. 1999.No contiene resumen.
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65Langfristige Fursorge und soziale Gerechtigkeit. Eine Herausforderung der konventionellen Ideen des GesellschaftsvertragesDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 51 (2): 179. 2003.
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65Review Essay: Epicurus' Ethical Theory: The Pleasures of InvulnerabilityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (3): 677. 1991.
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64Review of Bernard Williams: Making Sense of Humanity: And Other Philosophical Papers 1982–1993 (review)Ethics 107 (3): 526-529. 1997.
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64Political soul-making and the imminent demise of liberal educationJournal of Social Philosophy 37 (2). 2005.
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64Responses (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2): 473-486. 2004.I am extremely grateful to these three fine philosophers for spending time on my arguments and for the valuable questions they pose. I feel that I am very lucky to have commentators whose views and writings on this topic I admire, and with whose ideas I have engaged before with pleasure and profit.
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635. From Anger to Love: Self-Purification and Political ResistanceIn Brandon M. Terry & Tommie Shelby (eds.), To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr, Harvard University Press. pp. 105-126. 2018.
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60Reply to the papersPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13 (4): 659-670. 2014.I am extremely grateful to Rick Furtak and Alison McQueen for their valuable and challenging comments. My book is long and complicated, and it can hardly have been easy to internalize its details, both philosophical and political. The two authors have a very accurate grasp of my views, and I am delighted by that. I actually do not need to spend my time correcting misstatements of what I say. Both authors offer really interesting challenges to my views, about which it’s a pleasure to think furthe…Read more
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60The transfiguration of everyday lifeMetaphilosophy 25 (4): 238-261. 1994.After more than forty years I still warmly recall the edifying conversations that I had in the episcopal palace in Bergamo with my revered bishop. Msgr. Radini Tedeschi. About the persons in the Vatican, from the Holy Father downwards, there was never an expression that was not respectful, no, never. But as for women or their shape or what concerned them, no word was ever spoken. It was as if there were no women in the world. This absolute silence, this lack of any familiarity with regard to the…Read more
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59El conocimiento del amorEstudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 11 169-198. 1995.Este ensayo considera, dentro de un contexto narrativo, el asunto de cómo llegar a saber de nuestro amor a partir de una comparación entre el comportamiento escéptico y desconfiado del lector de filosofía y el abierto y confiado del lector de relatos. El artículo explica cómo la filosofía permite clarificar la idea del conocimiento del amor por medio del análisis de los conceptos, descubriendo específicamente que es el amor en el alma y como es su conocimiento; y cómo el relato, señal…Read more
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56The Ethics and Politics of Compassion and Capabilities (edited book)Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong. 2007.
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55Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and LiteratureOxford University Press USA. 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, deal with 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-knowle…Read more
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55Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary ReadingsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.This book's thirty essays explore philosophically the nature and morality of sexual perversion, cybersex, masturbation, homosexuality, contraception, same-sex marriage, promiscuity, pedophilia, date rape, sexual objectification, teacher-student relationships, pornography, and prostitution. Authors include Martha Nussbaum, Thomas Nagel, Alan Goldman, John Finnis, Sallie Tisdale, Robin West, Alan Wertheimer, John Corvino, Cheshire Calhoun, Jerome Neu, and Alan Soble, among others. A valuable resou…Read more
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51Four Paradigms of Philosophical PoliticsThe Monist 83 (4): 465-490. 2000.“It is no chance matter we are discussing,” said Plato’s Socrates, “but how one should live.” All the major ancient Greek and Roman traditions of philosophy held that it was no mere academic discipline, but an art of living, a study whose aim included the improvement of conduct. All held, in addition, that philosophy, properly practiced and properly integrated into the public life of a community, would improve the practice of political life. That public role was not the only role they saw for ph…Read more
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51The complexity of groups: A comment on Jorge ValadezPhilosophy and Social Criticism 29 (1): 57-69. 2003.Valadez’ book is an excellent investigation of the question of group rights. Nonetheless, there are some serious objections to group rights that he does not investigate. Groups contain hierarchies of power: thus giving legal privileges to a group is usually tantamount to giving more power to those already in power within the group. Groups have unclear and changing boundaries of membership; group rights often reify the current definition of a group and militate against change. Finally, there are …Read more
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51How should what economists call “social values” be measured?The Journal of Ethics 3 (3): 249-273. 1999.Most economists and some philosophers distinguish individual utilities from interpersonal social values. Even if challenges to that conceptual distinction can be met, further philosophically interesting questions arise. I pursue three in this paper, using, as context for the discussion, health economics and its attempt to discern empirically a social welfare function to help guide rationing decisions. (1) To discern these utilities and values in a manner that is morally appropriate if they are t…Read more
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51Philosophical Interventions: Reviews 1986-2011Oup Usa. 2012.This volume collects the notable published book reviews of Martha C. Nussbaum, a philosopher and high profile public intellectual who comments often on issues in philosophy, politics, gender equality, economics, and the law. Many of her engagements have been through the medium of the book review, which she has published prolifically in academic journals and in high profile venues like The New Republic and The New York Times for over 20 years. This volume collects 25 of what she considers to be…Read more
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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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49Fictions of the SoulPhilosophy and Literature 7 (2): 145-161. 1983.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Martha Nussbaum FICTIONS OF THE SOUL* Gertrude says, "O Hamlet speak no more. / Thou turnst mine eyes into my very soul." He made her see her soul, then, with a speech. And many types of speeches try to do what Hamlet did here. They present us with accounts or pictures of ourselves, attempting to communicate to us some truth about what we really are — or (to use what is already a certain sort of picture) to show us die insides of our…Read more
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49Conversing with the tradition: John Rawls and the history of ethicsEthics 109 (2): 424-430. 1999.
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48Precis of The Therapy of DesireThe Therapy of Desire (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (3): 785. 1999.
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45El futuro del liberalismo feministaAreté. Revista de Filosofía 13 (1): 59-101. 2001.Los feministas han sostenido algunas veces que las teorías filosóficas de la justicia que provienen de la tradición liberal no pueden tratar adecuadamente las preocupaciones de las mujeres. Yo sostengo que de muchas maneras este argumento está errado: las mejores teorías liberales de la justicia proporcionan una base muy fuerte para pensar acerca de lo que requiere el respeto por la dignidad humana. Sin embargo, hay dos áreas pertinentes a la igualdad sexual en las cuales incluso las teorías lib…Read more
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43The challenge of gender justiceIn Reiko Gotoh & Paul Dumouchel (eds.), Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen, Cambridge University Press. pp. 94. 2009.
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40The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2009.The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent philosophic accounts of what the classical "tradition" has to offer. By examining texts of philosophers such as Epicurus, Lucretius, and Seneca, she recovers a valuable source for current moral an…Read more
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39Una novela en la que no sucede nada: Der Stechlin de Fontane y la amistad literariaAreté. Revista de Filosofía 21 (2): 411-444. 2009.Este artículo pretende mostrar la crucial importancia de la conversación en la obra Der Stechlin de Fontane. Frente al tradicional desarrollo de la trama literaria, que centra la atención en el drama de los conflictos (complicación y desenlace, tensión y sorpresa, conflicto romántico, etc.), en esta novela no encontramos nada de eso y, entonces, aparentemente, no ha pasado nada. No obstante, este juicio inicial queda desacreditado en la medida en que, compartiendo las conversaciones que entablan…Read more