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Martha Nussbaum
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control ... That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed.”
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She is internationally renowned for her work in Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy and the arts, and has been awarded honorary degrees from sixty-nine universities across the world. Her wide-ranging work includes The Fragility of Goodness (1986), The Therapy of Desire (1994), Sex and Social Justice (1999), Upheavals of Thought (2001), Creating Capabilities (2011), Anger and Forgiveness (2016), The Cosmopolitan Tradition (2019), and Justice for Animals (2023), as well as over five hundred articles. She won the Kyoto Prize in 2016, the Bergguren Prize in 2018, and the Holberg Prize in 2021.
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control ... That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed.”
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She is internationally renowned for her work in Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy and the arts, and has been awarded honorary degrees from sixty-nine universities across the world. Her wide-ranging work includes The Fragility of Goodness (1986), The Therapy of Desire (1994), Sex and Social Justice (1999), Upheavals of Thought (2001), Creating Capabilities (2011), Anger and Forgiveness (2016), The Cosmopolitan Tradition (2019), and Justice for Animals (2023), as well as over five hundred articles. She won the Kyoto Prize in 2016, the Bergguren Prize in 2018, and the Holberg Prize in 2021.
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The Age of Nothing
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