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Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Social Contracts and Three Unsolved Problems of Justice -- 2. Disabilities and the Social Contract -- 3. Capabilities and Disabilities -- 4. Mutual Advantage and Global Inequality: The Transnational Social Contract -- 5. Capabilities across National Boundaries -- 6. Beyond "Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Nonhuman Animals -- 7. The Moral Sentiments and the Capabilities Approach -- Notes -- References -- Index

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- One. World Citizens -- Two. Duties of Justice, Duties of Material Aid: Cicero's Problematic Legacy -- Three. The Worth of Human Dignity: Two Tensions in Stoic Cosmopolitanism -- Four. Grotius: A Society of States and Individuals under Moral Law -- Five. "Mutilated and Deformed": Adam Smith on the Material Basis of Human Capabilities -- Six. The Tradition and Today's World: Five Problems -- Seven. From Cosmopolitanism to the Capabilities Approach -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface to the 2016 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- I The Silent Crisis -- II Education for Profit, Education for Democracy -- III Educating Citizens: The Moral (and Anti-Moral) Emotions -- IV Socratic Pedagogy: The Importance of Argument -- V Citizens of the World -- VI Cultivating Imagination: Literature and the Arts -- VII Democratic Education on the Ropes

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her principal appointments are in the Philosophy Department and the Law School. Her books include Frontiers of Justice, Creating Capabilities, Political Emotions, and Anger and Forgiveness.

The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life. In this engaging book, Martha Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm--including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca--and recovers a valuable source for o

Intro -- Contents -- 1. A Problem in the History of Liberalism -- I. History -- 2. Equality and Love: Rousseau, Herder, Mozart -- 3. Religions of Humanity I: Auguste Comte, J. S. Mill -- 4. Religions of Humanity II: Rabindranath Tagore -- II. Goals, Resources, Problems -- Introduction to Part II -- 5. The Aspiring Society: Equality, Inclusion, Distribution -- 6. Compassion: Human and Animal -- 7. "Radical Evil": Helplessness, Narcissism, Contamination -- III. Public Emotions -- Introduction to Part III -- 8. Teaching Patriotism: Love and Critical Freedom -- 9. Tragic and Comic Festivals: Shaping Compassion, Transcending Disgust -- 10. Compassion's Enemies: Fear, Envy, Shame -- 11. How Love Matters for Justice -- Appendix. Emotion Theory, Emotions in Music: Upheavals of Thought -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Main description: Drawing inspiration from philosophy, history, and literature, Martha C. Nussbaum takes us to task for our religious intolerance, identifies the fear behind it, and offers a way past fear toward a more equitable, imaginative, and free society, through the consistent application of universal principles of respect for conscience.

Main description: This is a primer on the Capabilities Approach, Martha Nussbaum's innovative model for assessing human progress. She argues that much humanitarian policy today violates basic human values; instead, she offers a unique means of redirecting government and development policy toward helping each of us lead a full and creative life.

This is a primer on the "Capabilities Approach," Nussbaum's innovative model for assessing human progress. She argues that much humanitarian policy today violates basic human values; instead, she offers a unique means of redirecting government and development policy toward helping each of us lead a full and creative life.

A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands as one of our foremost authorities on law, justice, freedom, morality, and emotion. In From Disgust to Humanity, Nussbaum aims her considerable intellectual firepower at the bulwark of opposition to gay equality: the politics of disgust. Nussbaum argues that disgust has long been among the fundamental motivations of those who are fighting for legal discrimination against lesbian and gay citizens. When confronted with same-sex acts and relationships

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map of India -- Introduction -- 1. Genocide in Gujarat -- 2. The Human Face of the Hindu Right -- 3. Tagore, Gandhi, Nehru -- 4. A Democracy of Pluralism, Respect, Equality -- 5. The Rise of the Hindu Right -- 6. Fantasies of Purity and Domination -- 7. The Assault on History -- 8. The Education Wars -- 9. The Diaspora Community -- 10. The Clash Within -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index.

Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, in the law. Martha Nussbaum argues that we should be wary of these emotions because they are associated in troubling ways with a desire to hide from our humanity, embodying an unrealistic and somet

While America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in another critical part of the world. As Martha Nussbaum reveals in this penetrating look at India today, the forces of the Hindu right pose a disturbing threat to its democratic traditions and secular state. Since long before the 2002 Gujarat riots--in which nearly two thousand Muslims were killed by Hindu extremists--the power of the Hindu right has been growing, threatening India's hard-won constitutional practices of democracy, tolerance, and religious pluralism. Led politically by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Hindu right has sought the subordination of other religious groups and has directed particular vitriol against Muslims, who are cast as devils in need of purging. The Hindu right seeks to return to a "pure" India, unsullied by alien polluters of other faiths, yet the BJP's defeat in recent elections demonstrates the power that India's pluralism continues to wield. The future, however, is far from secure, and Hindu extremism and exclusivity remain a troubling obstacle to harmony in South Asia. Nussbaum's long-standing professional relationship with India makes her an excellent guide to its recent history. Ultimately she argues that the greatest threat comes not from a clash between civilizations, as some believe, but from a clash within each of us, as we oscillate between self-protective aggression and the ability to live in the world with others. India's story is a cautionary political tale for all democratic states striving to act responsibly in an increasingly dangerous world