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1Capabilities, entitlements, rights : supplementation and critiqueIn Steven Lecce, Neil McArthur & Arthur Schafer (eds.), Fragile Freedoms: The Global Struggle for Human Rights, Oup Usa. 2017.
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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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36Justice for animals: our collective responsibilitySimon & Schuster. 2022.A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.
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521. Shame, Separateness, and Political Unity: Aristotle's Criticism of PlatoIn Amélie Rorty (ed.), Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics, University of California Press. pp. 395-436. 1980.
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612. Religion and Women's Equality: The Case of IndiaIn Nancy L. Rosenblum (ed.), Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies, Princeton University Press. pp. 335-402. 2000.
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5PrefaceIn Thom Brooks & Martha Craven Nussbaum (eds.), Rawls's Political Liberalism, Cambridge University Press. 2015.Preface to Brooks and Nussbaum's edited Rawls's Political Liberalism
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283Animal 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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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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101The 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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30Sex 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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110RepliesThe 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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19Political Soul‐Making and the Imminent Demise of Liberal EducationJournal of Social Philosophy 37 (2): 301-313. 2006.
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73Sex and Social Justice; Women and Human Development: The Capabilities ApproachPhilosophical Review 111 (2): 262. 2002.Readers of Sex and Social Justice will find in its essays fresh insights and powerful arguments on such varied topics as pornography, prostitution, gay rights, the tensions between feminist imperatives and respect for cultural and religious differences, the importance to feminism of considering how desires adjust to socially formed expectations, the relationship between narrative, mercy and justice, Kenneth Dover’s memoirs, and Richard Posner’s economic and evolutionary account of sexual behavio…Read more
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179Frontiers of justice: disability, nationality, species membership (edited book)Belknap Press. 2006.Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, Frontiers of Justice is dedicated to this proposition. Taking up three urgent problems of social justice neglected by current theories and thus harder to tackle in practical terms and everyday life, Martha …Read more
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226Women and Human Development: The Capabilities ApproachCambridge University Press. 2000.In this major book Martha Nussbaum, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond the abstractions of economists and philosophers to embed thought about justice in the concrete reality of the struggles of poor women. Nussbaum argues that international political and economic thought…Read more
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695Human Functioning and Social Justice: In Defense of Aristotelian EssentialismPolitical Theory 20 (2): 202-246. 1992.It will be seen how in place of the wealth and poverty of political economy come the rich human being and rich human need. The rich human being is simultaneously the human being in need of totality of human life-activities — the man in whom his own realization exists as an inner necessity, as need. Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Svetaketu abstained from food for fifteen days. Then he came to his father and said, `What shall I say?' The father said: `Repeat the Rik, Yagus, a…Read more
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18Rawls'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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10Extending Political Liberalism: A Selection From Rawls's Political Liberalism, Edited by Thom Brooks and Martha C. NussbaumCambridge 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. In her introduction to the volume, Martha Nussbaum discusses the main themes of _Political L…Read more
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212Political liberalism and global justiceJournal of Global Ethics 11 (1): 68-79. 2015.This article argues that political liberalism, of the type formulated by John Rawls and Charles Larmore and further developed in Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach, is superior to more comprehensive political views both in domestic and in global affairs. Perfectionist liberalism as advocated by John Stuart Mill and Joseph Raz attempts to erase existing religions and replace them with the religion of utility or autonomy. This is wrong, because in the ethico-religious environm…Read more
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44235Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements: Sen and Social JusticeFeminist Economics 9 (2-3): 33-59. 2003.Amartya Sen has made a major contribution to the theory of social justice, and of gender justice, by arguing that capabilities are the relevant space of comparison when justice-related issues are considered. This article supports Sen's idea, arguing that capabilities supply guidance superior to that of utility and resources (the view's familiar opponents), but also to that of the social contract tradition, and at least some accounts of human rights. But I argue that capabilities can help us to c…Read more
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2The Worth of Human Dignity: Two Tensions in Stoic CosmpolitanismIn Gillian Clark & Tessa Rajak (eds.), Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World: Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin, Oxford University Press. 2002.
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6Equilibrium: Scepticism and Immersion in Political DeliberationActa Philosophica Fennica 66 171-198. 2000.
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99Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the HumanitiesPrinceton University Press. 2010."--Peter Brooks, Princeton University "This is an important book and a superb piece of writing, combining passionate enthusiasm with calm arguments and informative examples.
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8Libertarianism: For and AgainstRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.Libertarianism: For and Against offers dueling perspectives on the scope of legitimate government. Tibor R. Machan, a well-known libertarian philosopher, argues for a minimal government devoted solely to protecting individual rights to life, liberty, and property. Against this view, philosopher Craig Duncan defends democratic liberalism, which aims to ensure that all citizens have fair access to a life of dignity. In a dynamic exchange of arguments, the two philosophers cut to the heart of this …Read more