Martha Nussbaum Political Emotions

Empathie in het hart van de politiek

De Amerikaanse Martha Nussbaum is hoogleraar recht en ethiek aan de universiteit van Chicago en één van ’s werelds invloedrijkste denkers. Ze komt haar laatste boek 'Politieke emoties' voorstellen. Hierin voegt ze haar interesses voor sociale rechtvaardigheid en emoties samen tot een even doordacht als warm pleidooi voor meer empathie in het politieke denken. In de moderne politiek worden emoties stelselmatig onderbelicht. Nussbaum geeft ze de plaats die hen toekomt: in het hart van de politieke theorie.

[nilanjanaghosh]

You are such a great human being ma'am ...don't know why I always find your lectures and thoughts as beautiful, concrete and comprehensive as poetry...really great.

[anasabdelrahim]

"Take, as an image of the good life, a jazz group. A jazz group which is improvising obviously differs from a symphony orchestra, since to a large extent each member is free to express herself as she likes. But she does so with a receptive sensitivity to the self-expressive performances of the other musicians. The complex harmony they fashion comes not from playing from a collective score, but from the free musical expression of each member acting as the basis for the free expression of the others. As each player grows more musically eloquent, the others draw inspiration from this and are spurred to greater heights. There is no conflict here between freedom and the ‘good of the whole’, yet the image is the reverse of totalitarian. Though each performer contributes to ‘the greater good of the whole’, she does so not by some grim-lipped self-sacrifice but simply by expressing herself. There is self-realization, but only through a loss of self in the music as a whole. There is achievement, but it is not a question of self-aggrandizing success. Instead, the achievement – the music itself – acts as a medium of relationship among the performers. There is pleasure to be reaped from this artistry, and – since there is a free fulfillment or realization of powers- there is also happiness in the sense of flourishing" Terry Eagleton.

[DanThomas]

Miss Nussbaum mentions 'fear of other racial groups' in the course of her speech as one of the topics. Someone of you presumed knowledge Miss Nussbaum, should know there is only one human race and manny other ethnicities.

[mensabs]

Politics requires reason not emotion, especially from a person of privileged background.

[dglolz]

#Project2020ReconcileHumanity #DeathtoWhiteDevildom ka ka ka karrrma incoming

[arunjetli]

i am not a fan of nussbaum as she dies not have a clear epistemology
she is vusceral in the tradition of ockham and hume
i do however have to cite my disapproval of the critic christopher becayse he like Aristotle does not believe in due diligence
as us also the case with nussbaum but i will defend her aginst this sophomoric analyst
yes she talks too much about Tagore because she is ignorant about Real i dian philosophy
tagore is visceral and nussbaum can claim that tagore was i fluened by the west thus keepi the myth alive that india did nothing
she is too aristotelian to know that lthe conceots of sunya and purna over a thiusand yesrs led to mathematics and ontologically to the monism that was not seen in the west after Parmenides
she if course loves Mill too a philosopher
whisedepthis 2 millimeters and a guy who supported the Britsh massacres
she could have nentioned Marx or kapila but Dr Nussbaum is happy in her cocoon where
practicality is divirced from actuality