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34The Protagoras: a science of practical reasoningIn Elijah Millgram (ed.), Varieties of Practical Reasoning, Mit Press. pp. 153--201. 2001.
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34CHAPTER 12. Serpents in the Soul: A Reading of Seneca’s MedeaIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 439-483. 2009.
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33Book review: The therapy of desire: Theory and practice in hellenistic ethics (review)Philosophy and Literature 20 (2). 1996.
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30El 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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30CHAPTER 4.Epicurean Surgery: Argument and Empty DesireIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 102-139. 2009.
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29Review: Précis of "Upheavals of Thought" (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2). 2004.Emotions shape the landscape of our mental and social lives. Like the “geological upheavals” a traveler might discover in a landscape where recently only a flat plane could be seen, they mark our lives as uneven, uncertain, and prone to reversal. Why and how? Is it because emotions are animal energies or impulses that have no connection with our thoughts, imaginings, and appraisals? In the passage from which my title is taken, Proust denies this, calling the emotions “geological upheavals of tho…Read more
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29Interview - Martha NussbaumThe Philosophers' Magazine 40 51-54. 2008.Martha Nussbuam is one of the most prolific and original philosophers working today. Influenced by ancient philosophy, she has written on the relationship between fiction, the emotions and moral reasoning. With Amartya Sen she developed the capabilities approach to human well-being, which helped shape the UN’s Human Development Index. She is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.
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29The 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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28Compassion : Human and animalIn N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen & Jeff McMahan (eds.), Ethics and Humanity: Themes From the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover, Oxford University Press. pp. 202--226. 2009.
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28Anger, Mercy, Revenge (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 2010.Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca—whose works have been highly praised by modern authors …Read more
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27Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western DebatePhilosophical Review 105 (3): 403. 1996.In 55 B.C. Pompey staged a combat between humans and elephants; the elephants were slaughtered en masse. Moved by their piteous trumpetings, the audience protested—feeling, says Cicero, that there was a certain community, between elephants and themselves. As Sorabji notes, this recognition of belonging is inconsistent with the Stoic thesis that our moral affiliations embrace only the human kind. Cicero as letter-writer allows himself a qualm that his philosophical stance refuses.
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27The 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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27The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the WorldHastings Center Report 30 (2): 41. 2000.
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25Spaces of Democracy: Geographical Perspectives on Citizenship, Participation and RepresentationContemporary Political Theory 5 (2): 224-226. 2006.
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24Introducción: forma y contenido, filosofía y literaturaEstudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 11 43-106. 1995.Tanto la filosofía como la literatura, en cuanto búsquedas de la verdad, de respuestas frente a un núcleo de preguntas vitales, recurren a una estructura formal que necesariamente es la expresión de una actitud frente a la vida. Se plantea que la forma literaria no puede separarse del contenido filosófico, pues es el resultado de una indagación que intenta dar respuestas a asuntos particulares sobre la vida humana, así como el contenido filosófico halla expresión en una estructura forma…Read more
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24Challenges to Philosophy and Its OrganizationsProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 69 (2). 1995.
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24CHAPTER 1. Therapeutic ArgumentsIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 13-47. 2009.
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24Mitleid und Gnade: Nietzsches StoizismusDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 41 (5): 831-858. 1993.
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24El 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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23Beyond 'compassion and humanity': Justice for nonhuman animalsIn Cass R. Sunstein & Martha Craven Nussbaum (eds.), Animal rights: current debates and new directions, Oxford University Press. pp. 299--320. 2004.This chapter discusses the application of the capabilities approach to the question of animal rights. It explains that this approach provides better theoretical guidance on the issue of animal entitlements over contractarian and utilitarian approaches because it is capable of recognising a wide range of types of animal dignity and of corresponding needs for flourishing. The chapter criticises the view of philosopher Immanuel Kant and his followers that mistreatment of animals does not raise ques…Read more
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23Putnam’s AristotleIn Sanjit Chakraborty & James Ferguson Conant (eds.), Engaging Putnam, De Gruyter. pp. 227-248. 2022.
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22Creating Capabilities: The Human Development ApproachHarvard University Press. 2011.In this critique, Martha Nussbaum argues that our dominant theories of development have given us policies that ignore our most basic human needs for dignity and self-respect.
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22Equity 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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22Substance, Body, and Soul: Aristotelian Investigations by Edwin Hartman (review)Journal of Philosophy 77 (6): 355-365. 1980.
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22CHAPTER 11. Seneca on Anger in Public LifeIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 402-438. 2009.