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24Beyond '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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24Putnam’s AristotleIn Sanjit Chakraborty & James Ferguson Conant (eds.), Engaging Putnam, De Gruyter. pp. 227-248. 2022.
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24Mitleid und Gnade: Nietzsches StoizismusDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 41 (5): 831-858. 1993.
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24Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1997.In this comprehensive collection of essays, most of which appear for the first time, eminent scholars from many disciplines—philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, demography, theology, history, and social psychology—examine the causes, nature, and consequences of present-day consumption patterns in the United States and throughout the world.
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23Commentary on EdmundsProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 1 (1): 231-240. 1985.
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23CHAPTER 11. Seneca on Anger in Public LifeIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 402-438. 2009.
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20Amor y visión. Iris Murdoch sobre Eros y lo individualDaimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 60 55-73. 2013.Ensayo publicado bajo el título "Love and Vision: Iris Murdoch on Eros and the Individual" en: M. Antonaccio y W. Schweiker, Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1996, pp. 29-53. El objetivo del este ensayo es analizar el lugar que ocupa el amor er.tico en la obra de Iris Murdoch y, en especial, su relaci.n con el descubrimiento moral. Para ello se contraponen dos modelos: el expuesto por Plat.n en el diálogo Fedro y el que opera en la Divina …Read more
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20Perfektionistischer Liberalismus und Politischer LiberalismusZeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 1 (1): 99-166. 2014.Dieser Text ist ursprünglich 2011 unter dem Titel „Perfectionist Liberalism and Political Liberalism“ in Philosophy & Public Affairs 39, 3–45, erschienen. Wir danken Martha Nussbaum sowie dem Verlag Wiley für die Erlaubnis zur Übersetzung und hoffen damit, zur weiteren Rezeption dieses wichtigen Textes beizutragen.
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20Subversion and Sympathy: Gender, Law, and the British Novel (edited book)Oup Usa. 2013.This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope. Approaching the topic from a variety of backgrounds the contributors reinvigorate the law-and-literature movement by displaying a range of ways in which literature and law can illuminate one another, and in which the conversation between them can illuminate deeper human issues with which both disciplines are concerned
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20Passions and Perceptions: Studies in Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind: Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium HellenisticumPhilosophical Review 104 (4): 583. 1995.This is the latest volume in a series that has made important contributions on Hellenistic philosophy, currently the liveliest context of research in ancient philosophy. Each volume is based on a smallish conference of leading international scholars; the aim is not to generate shared work on a single issue or topic, but to produce a series of original, expert papers in a given area. A feature of the series has been to show not only that much new, good scholarship can be done on Hellenistic thoug…Read more
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19Human dignity and political entitlementsIn Adam Schulman (ed.), Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics, [president's Council On Bioethics. 2008.
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19CHAPTER 6. Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of NatureIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 192-238. 2009.
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19Emotions as JudgmentsThe Therapy of DesirePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (3): 793. 1999.
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197. "Whether from Reason or Prejudice": Taking Money for Bodily ServicesIn Jessica Spector (ed.), Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate About the Sex Industry, Stanford University Press. pp. 175-208. 2006.
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19Tragedy anbd Self-Sufficiency: Plato and Aristotle on Fear and PityOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 10 107-159. 1992.
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18Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 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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18Political Soul‐Making and the Imminent Demise of Liberal EducationJournal of Social Philosophy 37 (2): 301-313. 2006.
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17Rawls's Political Liberalism (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2015.Widely hailed as one of the most significant works in modern political philosophy, John Rawls's _Political Liberalism_ defended a powerful vision of society that respects reasonable ways of life, both religious and secular. These core values have never been more critical as anxiety grows over political and religious difference and new restrictions are placed on peaceful protest and individual expression. This anthology of original essays suggests new, groundbreaking applications of Rawls's work …Read more
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17El discernimiento de la percepción: una concepción aristotélica de la razón privada y públicaEstudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 11 107-168. 1995.Este artículo es una presentación de la teoría aristotélica de la racionalidad que pretende, apoyándose en dicha teoría, criticar las teorías contemporáneas de la elección. Así, establece una oposición entre los planteamientos aristotélicos de la racionalidad práctica, al interior de los cuales es diferenciada la sabiduría práctica de la comprensión científica, y las recientes teorías que establecen una concepción "científica" de la racionalidad práctica, o bien, que contemp…Read more
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17Martha Nussbaum y Ursula Wolf.-Un contrapunto acerca de la vida buena-Estudios 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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17Chapter SixProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 1 (1): 151-201. 1985.
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162. The General Approach of Frontiers of Justice The general task of Frontiers of Justice was to continue a project I began in Women and Human Development (2000), confronting my version of the (review)In Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 75. 2010.
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16CHAPTER 3. Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical HealthIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 78-101. 2009.
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16Millean Liberty and Sexual Orientation: A Discussion of Edward Stein's The Mismeasure of DesireLaw and Philosophy 21 (3): 317-334. 2002.