human rights, women's rights, animal rights

 

David will draw out and explicate Martha Nussbaum's weltanschauung and some of her insights mainly from four books she wrote and edited:  The Fragility of Goodness, Frontiers of Justice, Hiding from Humanity, and For Love of Country?   His talk will be followed by an open questioning/dialogue/discussion.  Martha C. Nussbaum is very alive and well today.  She remains a wonderful feeling-thinker and scholar who presents new ideas and she is bringing back contingency concerns into ethics and what a good life is from her deep reading of Aristotle and the Tragic Poets -- in contrast to (with qualifications) philosophy's more current trends of utilitarian and Kantian perspectives in its pursuit and posits of happiness and the good.