Martha Nussbaum

Instead, just like human beings, non-human animals are entitled to dignified existence because they are born with desires to fulfil, and more importantly, with certain central capabilities to perform, which go beyond the mere capability to reason. Nussbaum (2006) gives a famous list of these capabilities: life; bodily health; bodily integrity; senses, imagination and thought; emotions; practical reason; affiliation; other species; play; and control over one's environment (393-400). It will be…

believe this notion it what make us humans being, characterized for have feelings and be able to be in others person shoes. As we know sympathy is the common feeling and understanding of others condition even though is not our situation. In fact, Martha Nussbaum stated “we all born with this capacity in a rudimentary form, but if it is not trained it will remain crude and highly uneven”. Clearly sympathy is a nature capacity that human beings own, but it only can be form if we understand what…

Bees find kindness as weakness, and prey on those who they deem weak. In the third chapter of Martha Nussbaum’s piece Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, Nussbaum discusses the idea that “Compassion is not reliable in and of itself” (37). I however disagree with this statement, I do not believe peace, love, and equality can be established from anything else but compassion…

Rochester. While it is almost universally believed that Jane and Rochester did in fact marry for love—a point that I have no reason nor proof to argue against—her marriage to Rochester does highlight a shift in her balance of reason and emotion. Martha C. Nussbaum, in an essay titled “Sex and Social Justice,” recognizes that individuals will make unique choices with regards to the pursuit of their goals. Some may identify personal fulfillment with the advancement of a group or community, while…

Philosophy and Literature Final Exam Dr. Charles Nussbaum Submitted By: Srijana Timalsina 1. What is reflective equilibrium? Summarize briefly but accurately the thought experiments posed (respectively) by Thomson and Dennett in their articles. Explain how the experiments are designed to affect our intuitions about specific cases and state the principles that you believe must be brought into…

What’s Art? Does a kindergarten child’s painting count as art? Or does my own terrible graffiti on my textbook count as art as well? Yes, they are. Whatever, people can see and get some inspiriting from it can be called “Art.” In the 20th century, what people get are their rights and freedom. The man and woman equality and repealed of black discrimination, people started to respect each other and this world became freer and easier for people to live. Freedom brought equality and entertainments.…

Sexual objectification occurs when an individual is solely treated like an object that exists only for the sexual pleasure of others, without consideration for the person that is being objectified. The sexual objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) has been implied as an explanation for understanding the effects of living in a society that sexually objectifies women and it asserts that women are uniquely subjected to these types of experiences. When a women is sexually objectified,…

She has a stronger focus on her family, what little is left. As Martha Nussbaum said, “She draws, in her imagination, a small circle around the members of her family: what is inside is family,” (1919). Antigone does not see the battle between Eteocles and Polyneices as a political issue. Her concern is only with her family…