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360Aristotle, politics, and human capabilities: A response to Antony, Arneson, Charlesworth, and MulganEthics 111 (1): 102-140. 2000.
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425’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.
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165Emotions as judgments of value and importanceIn Robert C. Solomon (ed.), Thinking About Feeling: Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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15A philosopher and a lawyer-economist examine the challenges of the last third of life. They write about friendship, sex, retirement communities, inheritance, poverty, and the depiction of aging women in films. These essays, or conversations, will help readers of all ages think about how to age well, or at least thoughtfully, and how to interact with older family members and friends.
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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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37CHAPTER 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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11CHAPTER 9. Stoic Tonics: Philosophy and the Self-Government of the SoulIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 316-358. 2009.
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3AcknowledgmentsIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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2Index LocorumIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 531-549. 2009.
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6IntroductionIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-12. 2009.
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6Introduction to the 2009 EditionIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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31CHAPTER 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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2General IndexIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 550-558. 2009.
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AbbreviationsIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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16CHAPTER 2. Medical Dialectic: Aristotle on Theory and PracticeIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 48-77. 2009.
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13CHAPTER 10. The Stoics on the Extirpation of the PassionsIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 359-401. 2009.
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8Nature, Function, and Capability: Aristotle on Political DistributionOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 145-184. 1988.
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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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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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12Sex, Preference, and Family: Essays on Law and Nature (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 1997.In this timely, provocative volume, essayists including Susan Moller Okin, Catherine A. MacKinnon, Cass Sunstein, Martha Minow, William Galston, and Sara McLanahan argue positions on sexuality, on the family, and on the proper role of law in these areas.
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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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37The Protagoras: a science of practical reasoningIn Elijah Millgram (ed.), Varieties of Practical Reasoning, Mit Press. pp. 153--201. 2001.
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8Public philosophy and international feminismIn Stephen Everson (ed.), Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 1998.
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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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434Is 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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87Anger 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.