Quotes by Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha C. Nussbaum

A person in torment is not going to give you anything.

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Torment

After all, the nation is not just an entity. It’s a story. It’s a story of what’s salient, what brought us together, what we are willing to live and die for.

Entity

Stories

Together

As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn’t try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that’s necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.

Good Life

People

Self

As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.

Empathy

Events

Stories

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

Humanity

Imagination

Leader

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Community

Political

Ties

Choice matters. You might have the opportunity to eat a nutritious diet, though you might choose to eat a lousy diet. What matters is the opportunity.

Choices

Opportunity

What Matters

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or to experience that person’s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.

Exercise

Eye

Views

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don’t like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

Firsts

Philosophy

Principles

I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero’s time, there was this idea that although we were members of the whole world of human beings, we also needed to connect our imaginations to a smaller unit. The smaller unit was something we knew we could live or die for, as Cicero died for the Roman republic.

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Imagination

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Quotes by Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha C. Nussbaum

A person in torment is not going to give you anything.

After all, the nation is not just an entity. It’s a story. It’s a story of what’s salient, what brought us together, what we are willing to live and die for.

As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn’t try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that’s necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.

As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Choice matters. You might have the opportunity to eat a nutritious diet, though you might choose to eat a lousy diet. What matters is the opportunity.

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don’t like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

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