#MarthaNussbaum
Quote of the Day:
"It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them."
- Martha Nussbaum
#QuoteOfTheDay #MarthaNussbaum #Othering #Alienation #Manipulation
December 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“ #Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but #ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.” - #MarthaNussbaum
June 13, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Quote of the Day:
"Fear and monarchy pair nicely. But democracy means you have to work with people you may not like but you must still believe are your equals. And a fearful people never trust the other side."
- Martha Nussbaum
#QuoteOfTheDay #MarthaNussbaum #Cooperation #Democracy #Distrust
July 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“ #Fear … is intensely #narcissistic. It drives out all thoughts of others, even if those thoughts have taken root in some form.” - #MarthaNussbaum, The Monarchy of Fear: A #Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
December 10, 2024 at 1:15 PM
" #Anger pollutes #democratic #politics and is of dubious value in both #life and #law." - #MarthaNussbaum, The Monarchy of Fear: A #Philosopher Looks at Our #Political #Crisis
December 10, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Razón por la cuál, siempre busco profesores invitados para mis clases. Gracias #MarthaNussbaum, tu libro "El cultivo de la humanidad" siempre será una inspiración docente.
November 21, 2024 at 2:04 PM
“Because ( #DWWinnicott) recognized (as many #psychoanalysts do not) that the personal and political are inseparable, he kept returning to political questions throughout his career.” - #MarthaNussbaum, Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
December 10, 2024 at 2:06 PM
“In the #Proustian view, then, as in Nussbaum’s, #emotions are not separate from #thought but are a form of thought, which projects outwards to objects in the world” #MarthaNussbaum #philosophy aeon.co/essays/why-r...
Why reading Martha C Nussbaum’s philosophy is pure pleasure | Aeon Essays
Martha Nussbaum’s philosophy is dynamic and challenging, but also elegant and lucidly written: she is the thinker of our time
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March 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“Nussbaum’s style is lucid and elegant, and she can be read for pure pleasure (which is certainly not something you could say of all #academic #philosophers).”
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Why reading Martha C Nussbaum’s philosophy is pure pleasure | Aeon Essays
Martha Nussbaum’s philosophy is dynamic and challenging, but also elegant and lucidly written: she is the thinker of our time
aeon.co
March 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“ #HumanBeings in all cultures and alone among the #animals exhibit anxiety about being animals. We seek to conceal the signs of our #animality and shrink from them when they are being thrust upon us.” - #MarthaNussbaum, The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
December 11, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Started the week with Martha Nussbaum and don't know whether to be intimidated or motivated. Hopefully the latter after the first coffee.

#MarthaNussbaum #FeministPhilosophy #ButFirstCoffee
May 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM
CONTEMPORARY ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS provides a thorough introduction to three of the twentieth century’s most influential proponents of Aristotle’s #Moral #Philosophy. #AlasdairMacIntyre #MarthaNussbaum #RobertSpaemann

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January 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM
“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.”

✒️ #MarthaNussbaum, American philosopher, celebrates her birthday today. #Philosophy
May 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
📚 Teach-in Tuesday

Philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum reminds us that justice is about real opportunities for all. Her “Capabilities Approach” asks what people are truly able to do and be.

#TeachInTuesday #Humanism #MarthaNussbaum #CapabilitiesApproach #HumanDignity
September 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Holy Roman Emperor Henry II (973), Sejong the Great of Korea (1397), Maximilien Robespierre (1758), Sigmund Freud (1856), Amadeo Giannini (1870), José Ortega y Gasset (1883), Orson Welles (1915), #MarthaNussbaum (1947), Samuel Doe (1951) & Tony Blair (1953) were born #OnThisDay...
May 6, 2025 at 4:28 AM
“ #Fear … always threatens the spirit of #dissent. Fear makes people run for cover, seeking comfort in the embrace of a leader or homogeneous group. #Questioning feels naked and solitary.” - #MarthaNussbaum, The Monarchy of Fear: A #Philosopher Looks at Our #Political #Crisis
December 10, 2024 at 5:25 PM
#Höhrtipp: Heute, 25.9.2024 14:00 #PhilosophischeBrocken auf @radio_ORANGE

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#Bücher #Lesen #Philosophie #Existentialism #Arbeiterin #MarthaNussbaum #HélèneCixous #Klimawandel #Transgender
September 25, 2024 at 7:30 AM
“Some fear can be good, but this was a seething current of emotion preventing people from getting together and talking to each other about what we should do to fix the nation’s problems.”
#marthanussbaum #fear #booksky
Martha C. Nussbaum Interviewed on Trump, Fear, and the Power of Hope | University of Chicago Law School
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January 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Cuando a Diógenes el Cínico le preguntaron por su lugar de procedencia respondió con la palabra “kosmopolitês” (“ciudadano del mundo”, del “cosmos”).

Leyendo “La tradición cosmopolita. Un noble e imperfecto ideal”, de #MarthaNussbaum

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Martha Nussbaum y los cosmopolitas, la senda de los “ciudadanos del mundo”
«La tradición cosmopolita» de Martha C. Nussbaum aborda la necesidad de compromiso con los demás y la solidaridad a nivel global. La obra analiza la influencia de filósofos como Cicerón, Grocio y A…
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April 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger."
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December 4, 2024 at 10:58 AM