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Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education » Read Now
by Martha C. Nussbaum. 336 pgs.

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How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Philosopher and classicist Martha C. Nussbaum takes up the challenge of conservative critics of academe to argue persuasively that sustained...
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How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Philosopher and classicist Martha C. Nussbaum takes up the challenge of conservative critics of academe to argue persuasively that sustained reform in the aim and content of liberal education is the most vital and invigorating force in higher education.
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Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions (Chap. 14 "Beyond 'Compassion and Humanity': Justice for Nonhuman Animals" by Martha C. Nussbaum) » Read Now
by Martha C. Nussbaum, Cass R. Sunstein. 338 pgs.

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Millions of people live with cats, dogs, and other pets, which they treat as members of their families. But through their daily behavior, people who love those pets, and greatly care about their welfare, help ensure short and painful lives for millions, even billions of animals that cannot easily be...
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Millions of people live with cats, dogs, and other pets, which they treat as members of their families. But through their daily behavior, people who love those pets, and greatly care about their welfare, help ensure short and painful lives for millions, even billions of animals that cannot easily be distinguished from dogs and cats. Today, the overwhelming percentage of animals with whom Westerners interact are raised for food. Countless animals endure lives of relentless misery and die often torturous deaths. The use of animals by human beings, often for important human purposes, has forced uncomfortable questions to center stage: Should people change their behavior? Should the law promote animal welfare? Should animals have legal rights? Should animals continue to be counted as "property"? What reforms make sense? 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, the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals is being fundamentally rethought. This book offers a state-of-the-art treatment of that rethinking. Contributors include: Elizabeth Anderson Cora Diamond Richard A. Epstein David Favre Gary L. Francione Gisela Kaplan Catharine A. MacKinnon Richard A. Posner James Rachelsl Lesley J. Rogers Peter Singer Mariann Sullivan Stephen M. Wise David J. Wolfson
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Women's Voices, Women's Rights: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1996 (Chap. 1 "The Feminist Critique of Liberalism" by Martha C. Nussbaum) » Read Now
by Alison Jeffries. 135 pgs.

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Womens Voices, Womens Rights explores a range of themes including liberal political theory, religion and economic theory, equal enjoyment of rights, matrimony, women and fundamentalist religion.
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Hatred, Bigotry, and Prejudice: Definitions, Causes & Solutions (Chap. 22 "A Classical Case for Gay Studies" by Martha C. Nussbaum) » Read Now
by Robert M. Baird, Stuart E. Rosenbaum. 290 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

The kidnaping and beating death of a gay University of Wyoming student; the dragging death of a black man in Jasper, Texas, by advocates of "white pride" -- these two isolated incidents of violent crime occurred in 1998, not 1898, and are painful reminders that bigotry and prejudice stubbornly...
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The kidnaping and beating death of a gay University of Wyoming student; the dragging death of a black man in Jasper, Texas, by advocates of "white pride" -- these two isolated incidents of violent crime occurred in 1998, not 1898, and are painful reminders that bigotry and prejudice stubbornly remain well entrenched in American culture.
What, in today's seemingly enlightened society, compels a bigot? How do prejudice and hatred emerge, and sometimes lead to such horrific violence? What can be done to overcome this subversive social undercurrent?
Updated and augmented with new essays on crimes against religious groups, gay bashing, and current court cases, this is a concise and relevant collection of essays that pinpoints the definitions, origins, and outcomes of intolerance in America.
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Culture, Thought, and Development (Chap. 3 "Emotions and Social Norms" by Martha C. Nussbaum) » Read Now
by Larry P. Nucci, Geoffrey B. Saxe, Elliot Turiel. 290 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

In this volume, the reader will find a host of fresh perspectives. Authors seek to reconceptualize problems, offering new frames for understanding relations between culture and human development. Contributors include scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, law, theology, anthropology...
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In this volume, the reader will find a host of fresh perspectives. Authors seek to reconceptualize problems, offering new frames for understanding relations between culture and human development. Contributors include scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, law, theology, anthropology, developmental psychology, neuro- and evolutionary psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, and physics. To help organize the discussions, the volume is divided into three parts. Each part reflects an arena of current scholarly activity related to the analysis of culture, cognition, and development. The editors cast a wide but carefully crafted net in assembling contributions to this volume. Though the contributors span a wide range of disciplines, features common to the work include both clear departures from the polemics of nature-nurture debates and a clear focus on interacting systems in individuals' activities, leading to novel developmental processes. All accounts are efforts to mark new and productive paths for exploring intrinsic relations between culture and development.
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Women and Euality: The Capabilities Approach, in International Labour Review » Read Now
by Martha C. Nussbaum. 25 pgs.

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...capabilities approach. by Martha C. Nussbaum Martha NUSSBAUM * I found...of life" project directed by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen (see Chen, 1995...Oxford University...
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Essays on Aristotle's de Anima (Chap. 1(a) "The Text of Aristotle's De Anima" by Martha C. Nussbaum) » Read Now
by Martha C. Nussbaum, Amelie Oksenberg Rorty. 457 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

Bringing together a group of outstanding new essays on Aristotle's De Anima, this book covers topics such as the relation between soul and body, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought, which present the philosophical substance of Aristotle's views to the modern reader. The...
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Bringing together a group of outstanding new essays on Aristotle's De Anima, this book covers topics such as the relation between soul and body, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought, which present the philosophical substance of Aristotle's views to the modern reader. The contributors write with philosophical subtlety and wide-ranging scholarship, locating their interpretations firmly within the context of Aristotle's thought as a whole.u
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Sex, Laws, and Inequality: What India can Teach the United States, in Daedalus » Read Now
by Martha C. Nussbaum. 12 pgs.

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...teach the United States by Martha C. Nussbaum In every house there is...interdependent global community. Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished...
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The Human Embrace: The Love of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Love: Kierkegaard, Cavell, Nussbaum » Read Now
by Ronald L. Hall. 259 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Starting from Soren Kierkegaard's insight that fully accepting the human condition requires one to live with the persistent temptation to escape from it, Ronald Hall finds similar concerns reflected in the work of two modern-day philosophers, Stanley Cavell and Martha Nussbaum, who equally find in a...
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Starting from Soren Kierkegaard's insight that fully accepting the human condition requires one to live with the persistent temptation to escape from it, Ronald Hall finds similar concerns reflected in the work of two modern-day philosophers, Stanley Cavell and Martha Nussbaum, who equally find in a philosophy of love and marriage the key to understanding how humans may achieve happiness in the acceptance of their humanity.
All three thinkers follow a "logic of paradox" in showing how success in the human quest to be human depends crucially on the struggle humans experience with the ever-present opportunities to pursue alternative paths. What Kierkegaard called "living existentially" can be achieved only after confronting and refusing the possibilities of living in "aesthetic, " "ethical, " or even "religious" denial of one's true humanity.
By creating this dialogue between the nineteenth-century Danish thinker and two eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Hall reveals the continuing relevance of Kierkegaard's thought to our own age and its cogency as an interpretation of the human predicament.
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Literary Study and the Social Order, in Humanitas » Read Now
by Stephen L. Tanner. 8 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...ethical-social-political behavior involves Richard A. Posner, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Wayne C. Booth. The first venue for this debate...Philosophy and Literature 22 (1998):...
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On Development: World, Limit, Translation, in CLIO » Read Now
by Victoria I. Burke. 15 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

...by Victoria I. Burke Martha Nussbaum and Seyla Benhabib have raised...itself translated. (35) (1.) Martha Nussbaum, "Human Capabilities, Female...Culture, and Development...
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Liberal Perfectionism and Democratic Participation, in Polity » Read Now
by Albert W. Dzur. 24 pgs.

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...those doing the judging. (1.) Martha C. Nussbaum, "Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian...in The Quality of Life, ed. Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen (Oxford:...
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Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth-Century Theology and Philosophy (Chap. 5 "Can Aristotle Be a Liberal? Martha Nussbaum on Luck") » Read Now
by Stanley M. Hauerwas. 242 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Stanley Hauerwas critically engages the major theological & philosophical voices of modernity to reclaim a space for Christian discourse. Writing to a generation of Christians that finds itself at once comfortably "at home" yet oddly fettered & irrelevant in America, Hauerwas challenges contemporary...
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Stanley Hauerwas critically engages the major theological & philosophical voices of modernity to reclaim a space for Christian discourse. Writing to a generation of Christians that finds itself at once comfortably "at home" yet oddly fettered & irrelevant in America, Hauerwas challenges contemporary Christians to imagine what it might mean to "break back into Christianity" in a world that is at best semi-Christian.
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