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13Review of Bernard Williams: Making Sense of Humanity: And Other Philosophical Papers 1982–1993 (review)Ethics 107 (3): 526-529. 1997.
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308Animal rights: current debates and new directions (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2004.Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, the authors offer numerous different perspectives on animal rights and animal welfare. They show that whatever one's ultimate conclusions, …Read more
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20The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic EthicsPrinceton 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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11Education for Citizenship in an Era of Global ConnectionIn Aaron Stoller & Eli Kramer (eds.), Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University: Toward a Philosophy of Higher Education, Springer Verlag. pp. 145-159. 2018.Higher education makes an important contribution to citizenship. In the United States, the required portion of the “liberal arts education” in colleges and universities can be reformed so as to equip students for the challenges of global citizenship. This chapter advocates focusing on three abilities: the Socratic ability to criticize one’s own traditions and to carry on an argument on terms of mutual respect for reason; the ability to think as a citizen of the whole world, not just some local r…Read more
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32Amicus BriefPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 66 (1): 15-28. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Amicus BriefMartha C. Nussbaumii. summary of the argumentThis brief argues that the law requires reformation to protect our modern scientific and philosophical understanding that many animals can live their own meaningful lives and that the Court should reform the law in this case.1 Modern science demonstrates that elephants are complex beings that can form a conception of the self, as observed by Judge Fahey, form strong social and …Read more
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Poets as judges : judicial rhetoric and the literary imaginationIn Maksymilian Del Mar & Peter Goodrich (eds.), Legal theory and the humanities, Ashgate. 2014.
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1Legal reasoningIn John Tasioulas (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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Cicero and twenty-first century political philosophyIn Jed W. Atkins & Thomas Bénatouïl (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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41The Utility of a Psychoanalytic Theory of LawPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 104 (3): 777-783. 2022.Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 104, Issue 3, Page 777-783, May 2022.
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26Putnam’s AristotleIn Sanjit Chakraborty & James Ferguson Conant (eds.), Engaging Putnam, De Gruyter. pp. 227-248. 2022.
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34Equity and MercyIn A. John Simmons, Marshall Cohen, Joshua Cohen & Charles R. Beitz (eds.), Punishment: A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader, Princeton University Press. pp. 145-188. 1994.
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212Martha Nussbaum InterviewThe Philosophers' Magazine 52 21-30. 2011.“Philosophy is constitutive of good citizenship. It becomes part of what you are when you are a good citizen – a thoughtful person. Philosophy has manyroles. It can be just fun, a game that you play. It can be a way you try to approach your own death or illness, or that of a family member. I’m just focusing on the place where I think I can win over people, and say ‘Look here, you do care about democracy don’t you? Then you’d better see that philosophy has a place.’”
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90Goodness and AdvicePrinceton University Press. 2003.In my contribution to this volume, I (BHS) comment on on the stultifying rhetoric of contemporary analytic moral theory as illustrated in Judith Jarvis Thomson's Tanner Lectures, with particular reference to Thomson's anxieties about the moral relativism exhibited by college freshman and to her efforts--quite strained, in my view, and inevitably unsuccessful--to demonstrate the existence of objective judgments in matters of morality and taste .
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15Commentary on Halperin's' Plato and the Metaphysics of Desire'Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 5 (1): 53. 1989.
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11Nietzsche, Schopenhauer und DionysosIn Lore Hühn & Philipp Schwab (eds.), Die Philosophie des Tragischen: Schopenhauer - Schelling - Nietzsche, De Gruyter. pp. 319-356. 2011.
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5Philosophical norms and political attachments: Cicero and SenecaIn Dorothea Frede & Burkhard Reis (eds.), Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 425-446. 2009.
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20Substance, Body, and Soul: Aristotelian Investigations by Edwin Hartman (review)Journal of Philosophy 77 (6): 355-365. 1980.
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102The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed IdealHarvard University Press. 2019.The cosmopolitan tradition begins with Diogenes, who claimed as his identity "citizen of the world." Martha Nussbaum traces the cosmopolitan ideal from ancient times to the present, weighing its limitations as well as merits. Using the capabilities approach, Nussbaum seeks to integrate the "noble but flawed" vision of world citizenship with cosmopolitanism's concern with moral and political justice for all.--
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11Patriotisme et cosmopolitismeCahiers Philosophiques 1 99-110. 2012.L’article dont nous présentons ici la traduction fait partie des principaux textes qui ont, au début des années 1990, remis au goût du jour la perspective cosmopolitique. C’est ce caractère rénovateur qui motive notre choix de publication. Depuis la rédaction de cet article, Martha Nussbaum a régulièrement écrit sur la notion de cosmopolitisme et sur son articulation avec l’idée de patriotisme, précisant sa pensée sur ce point. Son article le plus récent sur cette question précise est « Toward a…Read more
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12Fatal Fictions: Crime and Investigation in Law and Literature (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2016.Writers of fiction have always confronted topics of crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice touches on so many political and psychological themes essential to literature, and comes equippedwith a trial process that contains its own dramatic structure. This volume explores this profound and enduring literary engagement with crime, investigation, and criminal justice. The collected essays explo…Read more
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32Sex and Social JusticeOxford University Press on Demand. 1999.Growing out of Nussbaum's years of work with an international development agency connected with the United Nations, this collection charts a feminism that is deeply concerned with the urgent needs of women who live in hunger and illiteracy, or under unequal legal systems. Offering an internationalism informed by development economics and empirical detail, many essays take their start from the experiences of women in developing countries. Nussbaum argues for a universal account of human capacity …Read more
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12Power, Prose, and Purse: Law, Literature, and Economic Transformations (edited book)Oup Usa. 2019.Power, Prose, and Purse is an edited collection of essays that draw connections between literature, economics and law. The essays discuss novels that explore the time period between the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression and analyze the insights that novelists may offer to law and economics, while noting the tensions among these paradigms.
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7RepliesThe Journal of Ethics 10 (4): 463-506. 2006.John Fischer challenges me to defend my arguments regarding the badness of death; I sharpen my position, but make some concessions, discussing the possibility of postmortem harm. In response to John Deigh, I defend the account of disgust given in Hiding from Humanity, together with the research of Paul Rozin that I follow there. I discuss Patrick Devlin’s conservative position, agree that we need to object to its emphasis on solidarity, not only to its emphasis on disgust, and argue that Deigh’s…Read more
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37RepliesThe Journal of Ethics 10 (4): 463-506. 2006.John Fischer challenges me to defend my arguments regarding the badness of death; I sharpen my position, but make some concessions, discussing the possibility of postmortem harm. In response to John Deigh, I defend the account of disgust given in Hiding from Humanity, together with the research of Paul Rozin that I follow there, I discuss Patrick Devlin's conservative position, agree that we need to object to its emphasis on solidarity, not only to its emphasis on disgust, and argue that Deigh's…Read more
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4Tragedy anbd Self-Sufficiency: Plato and Aristotle on Fear and PityIn Julia Annas (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume X: 1992, Clarendon Press. 1992.
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1Virtue, Love and Form: Essays in Memory of Gregory Vlastos (Apeiron v. 26 n. 3/4) (edited book)Academic Printing. 1994.
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4The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political CrisisOxford University Press. 2018.From one of the world's most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current American political crisis and recommendations for how to mend a divided country.