The Fragility Of Goodness

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The Fragility Of Goodness

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Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-01-15

The Fragility Of Goodness written by Martha C. Nussbaum and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

This book, first published in 2001, is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'.

The Fragility Of Goodness

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Author : Martha Craven Nussbaum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986

The Fragility Of Goodness written by Martha Craven Nussbaum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.

Love S Knowledge

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Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 1990

Love S Knowledge written by Martha C. Nussbaum and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.

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-knowledge. Nussbaum investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves emotional as well as intellectual activity, and which gives a certain type of priority to the perception of particular people and situations rather than to abstract rules. She argues that this ethical conception cannot be completely and appropriately stated without turning to forms of writing usually considered literary rather than philosophical. It is consequently necessary to broaden our conception of moral philosophy in order to include these forms. Featuring two new essays and revised versions of several previously published essays, this collection attempts to articulate the relationship, within such a broader ethical inquiry, between literary and more abstractly theoretical elements.

Upheavals Of Thought

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Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-04-14

Upheavals Of Thought written by Martha C. Nussbaum and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-14 with Family & Relationships categories.

In this compelling new book, Martha C. Nussbaum presents a powerful argument for treating emotions not as alien forces but as highly discriminating responses to what is of value and importance. She explores and illuminates the structure of a wide range of emotions, in particular compassion and love, showing that there can be no adequate ethical theory without an adequate theory of the emotions. This involves understanding their cultural sources, their history in infancy and childhood, and their sometimes unpredictable and disorderly operations in our daily lives.

The Fragility Of Bodies

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Author : Sergio Olguín
language : en
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Release Date : 2019-06-30

The Fragility Of Bodies written by Sergio Olguín and has been published by Bitter Lemon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with Fiction categories.

When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal ‘accidents’ on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers on commuter lines haunted by the memory of bodies hit at speed by their locomotives in the middle of the night. Aided by a train driver with whom she has a tumultuous and reckless affair, a junkie in rehab and two street kids willing to risk everything for a can of Coke, she uncovers a group of men involved in betting on working-class youngsters convinced to play Russian roulette by standing in front of fast-coming trains to see who endures the longest.

The Fragility Of Goodness

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Author : Tzvetan Todorov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-07-28

The Fragility Of Goodness written by Tzvetan Todorov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-28 with History categories.

With the exception of Denmark, Bulgaria was the only country allied with Nazi Germany that did not annihilate or turn over its Jewish population. Here a prominent French intellectual with Bulgarian roots accounts for this singularity. Tzvetan Todorov assembles and interprets for the first time key evidence from this episode of Bulgarian history, including letters, diaries, government reports, and memoirs--most never before translated into any language. Through these documents, he reconstructs what happened in Bulgaria during World War II and interrogates collective memories of that time. He recounts the actions of individuals and groups that, ultimately and collectively, spared Bulgaria's Jews the fate of most European Jews. The Bulgaria that emerges is not a heroic country dramatically different from those countries where Jews did perish. Todorov does find heroes, especially parliament deputy Dimitar Peshev, certain writers and clergy, and--most inspiring--public opinion. Yet he is forced to conclude that the "good" triumphed to the extent that it did because of a tenuous chain of events. Any break in that chain--one intellectual who didn't speak up as forcefully, a different composition in Orthodox Church leadership, a misstep by a particular politician, a less wily king--would have undone all of the other efforts with disastrous results for almost 50,000 people. The meaning Todorov settles on is this: Once evil is introduced into public view, it spreads easily, whereas goodness is temporary, difficult, rare, and fragile. And yet possible.

Cultivating Humanity

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Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1998-10-01

Cultivating Humanity written by Martha C. Nussbaum and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-01 with Education categories.

How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such “citizens of the world” in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Her vigorous defense of “the new education” is rooted in Seneca’s ideal of the citizen who scrutinizes tradition critically and who respects the ability to reason wherever it is found—in rich or poor, native or foreigner, female or male. Drawing on Socrates and the Stoics, Nussbaum establishes three core values of liberal education: critical self-examination, the ideal of the world citizen, and the development of the narrative imagination. Then, taking us into classrooms and campuses across the nation, including prominent research universities, small independent colleges, and religious institutions, she shows how these values are (and in some instances are not) being embodied in particular courses. She defends such burgeoning subject areas as gender, minority, and gay studies against charges of moral relativism and low standards, and underscores their dynamic and fundamental contribution to critical reasoning and world citizenship. For Nussbaum, liberal education is alive and well on American campuses in the late twentieth century. It is not only viable, promising, and constructive, but it is essential to a democratic society. Taking up the challenge of conservative critics of academe, she argues persuasively that sustained reform in the aim and content of liberal education is the most vital and invigorating force in higher education today.

Passions And Perceptions

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Author : Jacques Brunschwig
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-03-25

Passions And Perceptions written by Jacques Brunschwig and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-25 with Philosophy categories.

This volume considers the important contributions to philosophy made by the philosophers of the Hellenistic schools.

Philosophical Explanations

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Author : Robert Nozick
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1981

Philosophical Explanations written by Robert Nozick and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Philosophy categories.

Nozick develops new views on philosophy’s central topics and weaves them into a unified perspective. He ranges widely over philosophy’s fundamental concerns: the identity of the self, knowledge and skepticism, free will, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, the foundations of ethics, the meaning of life.

Rethinking Plato And Platonism

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Author : Vogel
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-07-17

Rethinking Plato And Platonism written by Vogel and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-17 with Literary Criticism categories.