"Local and Global Duties: Cicero's Problematic Legacy."
What are our duties, as citizens of the world, to others?
Are our obligations greater to those nearby than to those in distant lands?
When should the unjust denial of human rights, or for that matter of basic materials needs, compel us to remedial action?
Respondents: Liisa Malkki, Professor of Anthropology
Patrick Sinclair, Professor of Classics.
A Selected Bibliography
Compiled by
Eddie Yeghiayan
"Psuchê in Heraclitus." (I) Phronesis (1972), 17(1):1-16.
"Psuchê in Heraclitus." (II) Phronesis (1972), 17(2):153-170.
"Aristotle's De Motu Animalium." Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1975.
Review of Aristote, Marche des animaux, Mouvement des animaux, Index des traités biologiques, edited by Pierre Louis. Journal of Hellenic Studies (1975), 95:207-208.
"Consequences and Character in Sophocles' Philoctetes. "Philosophy and Literature (Fall 1976), 1(1):25-53.
Review of Hans-Joachim Newiger's Untersuchungen zu Gorgias' Schrift Über das Nichtseiende. Journal of Hellenic Studies (1976), 96:180-181.
"The Text of Aristotle's De Motu Animalium." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (1976), 80:111-159.
Review of Hazel Barnes' The Meddling Gods: Four Essays on Classical Themes. Philosophy and Literature (Fall 1977), 1(3):342-353.
Review of Stephen R.L. Clark's Aristotle's Man: Speculations upon Aristotelian Anthropology. Philosophical Review (April 1977), 86(2) [457]:241-244.
Aristotle's De Motu Animalium. Text with Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Review of Iris Murdoch's The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists. Philosophy and Literature (Spring 1978), 2(1):125-126.
"Eleatic Conventionalism and Philolaus on the Conditions of Thought." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (1979), 83:63-108.
"The Speech of Alcibiades: A Reading of Plato's Symposium." Philosophy and Literature (Fall 1979), 3(2):131-172.
"Aristophanes and Socrates on Learning Practical Wisdom." Yale Classical Studies (1980), 26:43-87.
Review of Edwin Hartman's Substance, Body, and Soul: Aristotelian Investigations. Journal of Philosophy (June 6, 1980), 77(6):355-375.
"Shame, Separateness, and Political Unity: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato." In Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, ed., Essays on Aristotle's Ethics, pp. 395-435. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Review of Rudolf Kassel's Der Text der aristotelischen Rhetorik: Prolegomena zu e. krit., and Aristotelis Ars Rhetorica. Text griech, edited by Rudolfus Kassel. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (1981), 63(3):346-350.
"Aristotle." In T. James Luce, ed., Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome, Volume I: Homer to Caesar, pp. 377-416. New York: Scribner's, 1982.
Edited (with Malcolm Schofield.) Language and Logos: Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy Presented to G.E.L Owen. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
"Saving Aristotle's Appearances." In Martha C. Nussbaum and Malcolm Schofield, eds., Language and Logos, pp. 267-293. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
"`This Story Isn't True': Poetry, Goodness, and Understanding in Plato's Phaedrus." In Julius Moravcsik, ed., Plato on Beauty, Wisdom, and the Arts, pp. 79-124. APQ Library in Philosophy. Totowa, NJ: Rowman Littlefield, 1982.
"The Common Explanation of Animal Motion." In Paul Moraux and J. Wiesner, eds., Zweifelhaftes im Corpus Aristotelicum. Studiun zu einigen Dubia. Akten des 9. Symposium Aristotelicum (Berlin 7.-16. September 1981, pp. 116-156. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1983.
"Fictions of the Soul." Philosophy and Literature (October 1983), 7(2):145-161.
"Flawed Crystals: James's The Golden Bowl and Literature
as Moral Philosophy."
New Literary History: A Journal
of Theory and Interpretation (Autumn 1983), 15(1):25-50.
Issue is on "
Literature and/as Moral Philosophy."
See pp. 179-200 for commentary by Patrick Gardiner, Richard
Wollheim and Hilary Putnam.
"Reply to Gardiner, Wollheim, and Putnam." New Literary History (Autumn 1983), 15(1):201-208.
"Aristotelian Dualism: Reply to Harold Robinson."
Oxford
Studies in Ancient Philosophy (1984), 2:197-207.
See Harold Robinson's "
Aristotelian Dualism."
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (1983), 1:123-144.
"Plato on Commensurability and Desire."
Proceedings
of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (1984),
58:55-80.
With Rosalind Hursthouse's comments, "
Plato on the Emotions," pp. 81-96.
"Aeschylus and Practical Conflict." Ethics (January 1985), 95(2):233-267.
"Aeschylus and Practical Conflict." In Jacques Brunschwig, Claude Imbert and Alain Roger, eds., Histoire et structure: A la mémoire de Victor Goldschmidt, pp. 69-92. Paris: Vrin, 1985.
"Affections of the Greeks."
Review of Michel Foucault's
The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2.
New York Times Book Review (November 10, 1985):13-14.
Reply to letters in later issue.
"Continuing the Search: Questions of Writing and Style in Classical Philosophy." Federation Review (National Federation of State Humanities Councils) (March-April 1985).
"`Finely Aware and Richly Responsible': Moral Attention and
the Moral Task of Literature."
Journal of Philosophy
(October 1985), 82(10):516-529.
APA Symposium on "
Morality in Literature,"
with Cora
Diamond's "
Missing the Adventure: Reply to Martha Nussbaum,"
[Abstract] pp. 530-531.
"Historical Conceptions of the Humanities and Their Relationship to Society." In Daniel Callahan, Arthur L. Caplan and Bruce Jennings, eds., Applying the Humanities, pp. 3-28. The Hastings Center Series in Ethics. New York: Plenum Press, 1985.
"Plato & Affirmation Action." [Letter] New York Review of Books (January 31, 1985), 32(1):41.
"Philosophical Books vs. Philosophical Dialogue."
Thinking:
The Journal of Philosophy for Children (1985), 6(2):13-14.
See "Continuing the search"
(1985).
Review of Marilyn French's Beyond Power: On Women, Men, and Morals. Boston Globe (July 21, 1985).
"Sophistry about Conventions."
New Literary History
(Autumn 1985), 17(1):129-139.
The issue is on "Philosophy of Science and Literary Theory."
"Commentary on Edmunds."
Proceedings of the Boston
Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (1986), 2:231-240.
On Lowell Edmunds' "Aristophanes' Socrates,"
pp. 209-230.
"The Discernment of Perception: An Aristotelian Conception
of Private and Public Rationality."
Proceedings of the
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (1986), 2:151-201.
Followed by Dan W. Brock's "
Commentary on Nussbaum," pp. 202-207.
The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy
and Philosophy. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1986.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Luck and Ethics:1-21.
Part I: Tragedy, Fragility and Ambition
Chapter 2: Aeschylus and Practical Conflict:25-50.
Chapter 3: Sophocles' Antigone: Conflict, Vision, and
Simplification:51-82,
Part II: Plato: Goodness without Fragility?
Chapter 4: The Protagoras: A Science of Practical Reasoning:89-121.
Interlude 1: Plato's Anti-tragic Theater:122-135.
Chapter 5: The Republic: True Value and the Standpoint
of Perfection:136-164.
Chapter 6: The Speech of Alicibiades: A Reading of the Symposium:165-199.
Chapter 7: `This story isn't true': Madness, Reason, and Recantation
in the Phaedrus:200-239.
Chapter 8: Saving Aristotle's Appearances:240-263.
Chapter 9: Rational Animals and the Explanation of Action:264-289.
Chapter 10: Non-scientific Deliberation:290-317.
Chapter 11: The Vulnerability of the Good Human Life: Activity
and Disaster:318-342.
Chapter 12: The Vulnerability of the Good Human Life: Relational
Goods: 343-372.
Interlude 2: Luck and the Tragic Emotions:378-394.
Chapter 13: The Betrayal of Convention: A Reading of Euripides'
Hecuba:397-421.
Edited. G.E.L. Owen's Logic, Science and Dialectic: Collected Papers in Greek Philosophy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; London: Duckworth, 1986.
"Love and the Individual: Romantic Rightness and Platonic Aspiration." In Thomas C. Heller, Morton Sosna, David E. Wellbery, Arnold I. Davidson, Ann Swindler and Ian Watt, eds., Reconstructing Individualism: Autonomy, Individuality, and the Self in Western Thought, pp. 253-277. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986.
"Miscast in Dialogue Form." Review of Iris Murdoch's Acastos. TLS [Times Literary Supplement] (August 15, 1986), 4350:881.
"Sex in the Head." Review of Roger Scruton's Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic. New York Review of Books (December 18, 1986), 33(20):49-52.
"Therapeutic Arguments: Epicurus and Aristotle." In Malcolm Schofield and Gisela Striker, eds., The Norms of Nature, pp. 31-74. Papers delivered at the Third International Conference on Hellenistic Philosophy, held in August 1983 in Bad Homburg vor der Hohe, Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'Homme, 1986.
"Women's Lot." Review of Jane Roland Martin's Reclaiming Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman. New York Review of Books (January 30, 1986), 33(1):7-12.
"Aristotle: Dialogue with Martha Nussbaum." In Bryan Magee's The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy: Based on the BBC Television Series, pp. 32-54. London: BBC Books, 1987.
"Aristotle et la fragilité de la bonté."
Bulletin
de la Société Française de Philosophie
(October-December 1987), 81(4):117-144.
Discussion follows the paper which was presented on May 23,
1987.
"Commentary on Mourelatos."Proceedings of the
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (1987), 2:195-207.
On Alexander P.D. Mourelatos' "
Quality, Structure, and
Emergence in Later Pre-Socratic Philosophy,"
pp. 127-194.
"`Finely Aware and Richly Responsible': Literature and the
Moral Imagination."
In Anthony J. Cascardi, ed., Literature
and the Question of Philosophy, pp. 167-191. Baltimore, Md:
John Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Expanded version of "`Finely Aware and Richly Responsible':
Moral Attention and the Moral Task of Literature"
(1985).
(with Amartya Sen.) "Internal Criticism and Indian Rationalist Traditions." WIDER Working Paper, WP, 30. Helsinki: World Institute for Development Economic Research of the United Nations University, August 1987. 36pp.
"Nature, Function, and Capability: Aristotle on Political Distribution."WIDER Working Paper, WP, 31. Helsinki: World Institute for Development Economic Research of the United Nations University, December 1987. 50pp.
"Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach." WIDER Working Paper, WP, 32. Helsinki: World Institute for Development Economic Research, December 1987. 37pp.
"Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory."
Logos (1987), 8:55-83.
This issue of the journal is on "Agents, Causality, and Virtue."
"Sexual Desire: An Exchange."
[Letter] New York
Review of Books (May 7, 1987), 34(8):46-47.
Exchange with Roger Scruton over review, see "
Sex in the
Head" (1986).
"The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions." Apeiron (Fall 1987), 20(2):129-177.
"Talking it Through." Review of Michael C. Stokes' Plato's Socratic Conversations: Drama and Dialectic in Three Dialogues, Charles L. Griswold's Self-Knowledge in Plato's `Phaedrus' and Plato, `Phaedrus', translated by C.J. Rowe. TLS [Times Literary Supplement ] (August 7, 1987), 4401:850.
"Undemocratic Vistas." Review of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. New York Review of Books (November 5, 1987), 34(17):20-26.
"Aristotle: Dialogue with Martha Nussbaum."
In Bryan
Magee's The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western
Philosophy: Based on the BBC Television Series, pp. 32-54.
Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
See "Aristotle: Dialogue with Martha Nussbaum"
(1987).
"Comments on Paul Seabright."
Ethics (January
1988), 98(2):332-340.
Delivered at the Oxford Philosophical Society on June 11, 1987.
On Paul Seabright's "The Pursuit of Happiness: Paradoxical
Motivation and the Subversion of Character in Henry James's Portrait
of a Lady" in the same issue.
"Histoires d'emotion: La généalogie de l'amour chez
Beckett."
Littérature (October 1988), 71:40-58.
Translation by Jean-Philippe Mathy of "Narrative Emotions: Beckett's Genealogy of Love" (1988).
"Love's Knowledge." In Brian P. McLaughlin and Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, eds., Perspectives on Self-Deception, pp. 487-514. Topics in Philosophy, 6. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
"Martha Nussbaum Applying the Lessons of Ancient Greece."
Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities, 1988 (1994).
Videocassette
release of a segment from the TV program "A World of Ideas."
"Narrative Emotions: Beckett's Genealogy of Love." Ethics (January 1988), 98(2):225-254.
"Nature, Function, and Capability: Aristotle on Political
Distribution."
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
(1988), Supplement:145-184.
Followed by David Charles' "
Perfectionsim on Aristotle's Political Theory: Reply to Martha
Nussbaum,"
pp. 185-206.
"
Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach."
In
Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr. and Howard K. Wettstein,
eds., Ethical Theory: Character and Virtue, pp. 32-53.
Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 13. Notre Dame, IN: University
of Notre Dame Press, 1988.
For expanded version see "Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian
Approach"
(1993).
"Reading for Life." Review of Wayne Booth's The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction. Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (December 1988), 1(1):165-180.
"Reply to David Charles."
Oxford Studies in Ancient
Philosophy (1988), Supplement:207-214.
Reply to David Charles' "
Perfectionism in Aristotle's Political
Theory: Reply to Martha Nussbaum,"
pp. 185-206.
"Beyond Obsession and Disgust: Lucretius' Genealogy of Love." Apeiron (March 1989), 22(1):1-59.
"`Finely Aware and Richly Responsible': Moral Attention and
the Moral Task of Literature."
In Stanley G. Clarke and Evan
Simpson, eds., Anti-Theory and Moral Conservatism in Ethics,
pp. 111-134. SUNY Series in Ethical Theory. Albany: State University
of New York Press, 1989.
See "
`Finely Aware and Richly Responsible': Moral Attention
and the Moral Task of Literature"
(1987).
(with Amartya Sen.) "Internal Criticism and Indian Rationalist Traditions." In Michael Krausz, ed., Relativism: Interpretation and Confrontation, pp. 299-325. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989.
"Martha Nussbaum: Classicist and Philosopher." Interview with Bill Moyers. In Bill Moyers' A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future, pp. 447-459. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
"A World of Ideas: Martha C. Nussbaum. `A Fragility of Goodness.'"
Washington, D.C.: PBS, 1989.
1 videocassette, VHS, ca. 30 min. Bill Moyers, sd, col.; 1/2
in.
"Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (December 1989), 50(2):303-351.
"Narrative Emotions: Beckett's Genealogy of Love."
In
Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones, eds., Why Narrative?
Readings in Narrative Theology. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans,
1989.
See "
Narrative Emotions: Beckett's Genealogy of Love" (1988).
"Nature, Function, and Capability: Aristotle on Political
Distribution."
Political Theory (1989), 17(2):152-186.
Followed by David Charles' "
Comments on M. Nussbaum," pp. 187-201.
"Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory."
In Ralph Cohen, ed., The Future of Literary Theory, pp.
58-85. New York: Routledge, 1989.
Essays by 25 leading critics and theorists chart the course
of Criticism into the 1990s and beyond.
See "Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical
Theory" (1987).
"Recoiling from Reason." Review of Alasdair McIntyre's
Whose Justice? Which Rationality? New York Review of
Books (December 7, 1989), 36(19):36-4&.
" Cover-title "
The Longing for Order."
"A Reply."
Soundings (Winter 1989), 72(4):725-781.
The issue is devoted to "
A Symposium on The Fragility of Goodness."
Reply to six articles on The Fragility of Goodness (1986).
"Tragic Dilemmas." Radcliff Quarterly (March 1989).
"Aristotle and the Foundations of Ethics." Kathryn Fraser Mackay lecture, 1990, St. Lawrence University.
"Aristotelian Social Democracy." In R. Bruce Douglass, Gerald M. Mara and Henry S. Richardson eds., Liberalism and the Good, pp. 203-252. New York & London: Routledge, 1990.
"The Bondage and Freedom of Eros." Review of John J. Winkler's The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece, and David M. Halperin's One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love. TLS [Times Literary Supplement] (June 1-7, 1990), 4548:571-573.
"`By Words not Arms': Lucretius on Gentleness in an Unsafe World." Apeiron (December 1990), 23(4):41-90.
"Comments."
Chicago-Kent Law Review (1990),
66(1):213-242.
Symposium on classical philosophy and the American constitutional
order.
"Introduction." The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Version by C.K. Williams, pp. vii-xliv. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990.
"Introduction" to "The Poetics of Therapy: Hellenistic Ethics in its Rhetorical and Literary Context" issue of Apeiron (1990), 23(4):1-6, edited by Martha C. Nussbaum.
Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature.
Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction: Form and Content, Philosophy and Literature:3-53.
Chapter 2: The Discernment of Perception: An Aristotelian Conception
of Private and Public Rationality:54-105.
Chapter 3: Plato on Commensurability and Desire:106-124.
Chapter 4: Flawed Crystals: James's The Golden Bowl and
Literature as Moral Philosophy:125-147.
Chapter 5: "
Finely Aware and Richly Responsible"
: Literature
and the Moral Imagination:148-167.
Chapter 6: Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical
Theory:168-194.
Chapter 7: Perception and Revolution: The Princess Casamassima
and the Political Imagination:195-219.
Chapter 8: Sophistry about Conventions:220-229.
Chapter 9: Reading for Life:230-244.
Chapter 10: Fictions of the Soul:245-260.
Chapter 11: Love's Knowledge:261-285.
Chapter 12: Narrative Emotions: Beckett's Genealogy of Love:286-313.
Chapter 13: Love and the Individual: Romantic Rightness and Platonic
Aspiration:314-334.
Chapter 14: Steerforth's Arm: Love and the Moral Point of View:335-364.
Chapter 15: Transcending Humanity:365-391.
"The Misfortunate Teller." Review of Judith N. Shklar's The Faces of Injustice. New Republic (November 26, 1990), 203(22):30-35.
"Nature, Function, and Capability: Aristotle on Political
Distribution."
In Gunther Patzig, ed., Aristoteles `Politik':
Akten des XI. Symposium Aristotelicum Friedrichshaften/Bodense,
25.8.-3.9.1987, pp. 152-186. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 1990.
See "Nature, Function, and Capability: Aristotle on Political
Distribution"
(1988).
"Our Pasts, Ourselves." Review of Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity. New Republic (April 9, 1990), 202(15):27-34.
"Perception and Revolution: The Princess Cassamassima and the Political Imagination." In George Boolos, ed., Meaning and Method: Essays in Honor of Hilary Putnam, pp. 327-353. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Politieke dieren. Aristoteles over de natuur en het menselijk bedrijf. Vert. uit het Engels door Michael Zeeman. Inleiding door G. van Donselaar. Baarn: Anthos, 1991.
Guest editor (with David Konstan) of "Sexuality in Greek & Roman Society" issue of Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (Spring 1990), 2(1).
"Therapeutic Arguments and Structures of Desire." Differences (Spring 1990), 2(1):46-66.
"With Aspiration and Desire." Review of A.W. Price's Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle. TLS [Times Literary Supplement] (February 16-22, 1990), 4533:165-166.
"Character." In Lawrence Becker and Charlotte Becker, eds., Encyclopedia of Ethics, Volume I, pp. 131-134. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 925. New York: Garland, 1991.
"The Chill of Virtue." Review of Gregory Vlastos' Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher. New Republic (September 16, 1991), 205(12-13):34-40.
"Commentary on Halperin."
In John J. Cleary and Daniel
C. Shartin, eds., Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium
in Ancient Philosophy, Vol. V: 1989, pp. 53-72. Lanham, Md:
University Press of America, 1991.
On David M. Halperin's "
Plato and the Metaphysics of Desire,"
pp. 27-52.
"Emotions as Judgments of Value." Yale Journal of Criticism (Spring 1992), 5(2):201-212.
"Knechstshaft und Freheit des Eros. Zwei Bhcher von John
J. Winkler und David M. Halperin."
Merkur (March
1991), 45(3) [504]:211-220.
Translation by Hans-Horst Henschen of "The Bondage and
Freedom of Eros"
(1990).
"The Literary Imagination in Public Life." New Literary History (Autumn) 1991), 22(4):877-910.
"Literature and Ethics." In Lawrence Becker and Charlotte Becker, eds., Encyclopedia of Ethics, Volume II, pp. 728-731. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 925. New York: Garland, 1991.
Review Essay of Phillip Mitsis' Epicurus' Ethical Theory: The Pleasures of Invulnerability. Philosophy & Phenomenological Research (September 1991), 51(3):677-687.
"Skeptic Purgatives: Therapeutic Arguments in Ancient Skepticism." Journal of the History of Philosophy (October 1991), 29(4):521-557.
"Tragedy." In Lawrence Becker and Charlotte Becker, eds., Encyclopedia of Ethics, Volume II, pp. 1254-1257. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 925. New York: Garland, 1991.
"The Transfigurations of Intoxication: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dionysus." Arion (Spring 1991), 1(2):75-111.
"Aristotle, Feminism, and Needs for Functioning." Texas Law Review (March 1992), 70(4):1019-1028.
(with Hilary Putnam.) "Changing Aristotle's Mind." In Martha Nussbaum and Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, eds., Essays on Aristotle's `De Anima', pp. 27-56. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
"A Classic Case for Gay Studies." In Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum, eds., Bigotry, Prejudice and Hatred: Definitions, Causes & Solutions, pp. 95-107. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992.
"Emotions as Judgments of Value." Yale Journal of Criticism (Spring 1992), 5(2):201-212.
Edited (with Amélie Oksenberg Rorty.) Essays on Aristotle's `De Anima'. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
"Human Functioning and Social Justice: In Defense of Aristotelian
Essentialism."
Political Theory (May 1992), 20(2):202-246.
For shorter version see "
Social Justice and Universalism:
In Defense of an Aristotelian Account of Human Functioning"
(1992).
"Justice for Women!" Review of Susan Moller Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family. New York Review of Books (October 8, 1992), 39(16):43-48. Cover-title " A Feminist Theory of Justice."
"Nature, Function, and Capability: Aristotle on Political
Distribution."
In George E. McCarthy, ed., Marx and Aristotle:
Nineteenth-Century German Social Theory and Classical Antiquity,
pp. 175-212. Perspectives on Classical, Political and Social
Thought. Savage, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992.
See "Nature, Function, and Capability: Aristotle on Political
Distribution"
(1988).
"`Only Grey Matter'? Richard Posner's Cost-Benefit Analysis
of Sex."
Review of Richard A. Posner's Sex and Reason.
University of Chicago Law Review (Fall 1992), 59(4):1689-1734.
See also "Venus in Robes"
(1992).
"Reply to Richard Eldridge."
Arion: A Journal of
Humanities and the Classics (Winter 1992), 2(1):198-207.
Reply to Richard Eldridge's "
Reading for Life: Martha C.
Nussbaum on Philosophy and Literature,"
pp. 187-197, a review
of her Love's Knowledge (1990).
Review of Andrea Dworkin's Mercy. Boston Review
(April 1992).
Replies to letters in the September 1992 issue.
"The Softness of Reason: A Classical Case for Gay Studies." New Republic (July 13, 1992), 207(3-4):26-27, 30, 32, 34-35.
"The Text of Aristotle's De Anima." In Martha Nussbaum and Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, eds., Essays on Aristotle's `De Anima', pp. 1-6. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
"Tragedy and Self-Sufficiency: Plato and Aristotle on Fear and Pity." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (1992), 10:107-159.
"Tragedy and Self-Sufficiency: Plato and Aristotle on Fear and Pity." In Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, ed., Essays on Aristotle's Poetics, pp. 261-290. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
"Venus in Robes." Review of Richard A. Posner's Sex and Reason. New Republic (April 20, 1992), 206(16):36-4".
"Virtue Revived: Habit, Passion, Reflection in the Aristotelian
Tradition."
TLS [Times Literary Supplement]
(July 3, 1992), 4657:9-11.
Part of a special section on "The State of Philosophy."
"Beatrice's `Dante': Loving the Individual?" Apeiron (September-December 1993), 26(3-4):161-178.
"Citizens of the World: A Classical Defense of Radical Reform
in Higher Education."
David Pierpont Gardner graduate lecture
in the humanities and fine arts, May 26, 1994, Salt Lake City,
University of Utah.
1 videocassette, 89 min.: sd, b&w: 1/2 in.
"Commentator on Charles Taylor's `Explanation and Practical Reason'." In Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, eds., The Quality of Life, pp. 232-241. Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the World Institute for Development Economics Research. WIDER Studies in Development Economics. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
"Commentator on Onora O'Neill's `Justice, Gender, and International Boundaries'." In Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, eds., The Quality of Life, pp. 324-335. Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the World Institute for Development Economics Research. WIDER Studies in Development Economics. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
"Comparing Virtues."
Journal of Religious Ethics
(Fall 1993), 21(2):345-367.
Includes reply to discussion articles.
"Equity and Mercy." Philosophy & Public Affairs (Spring 1993), 22(2):83-125.
"Gerechtigkeit fhr Frauen! Warum Angela K. und Saleha Begum
den Liberalismus herausfordern."
Neue Rundschau
(1993), 104(4):80-91.
Translation by Max Looser of "
Justice for Women!"(1992).
"Is Homosexual Conduct Wrong? A Philosophical Exchange."
New Republic (November 15, 1993), 209(20) [4113]:12.
With John Finnis on the other side.
(with Amartya Sen.) "Introduction." In Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, eds., The Quality of Life, pp. 1-6. Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the World Institute for Development Economics Research. WIDER Studies in Development Economics. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
"Justice pour les femmes."
Esprit (May 1993),
5:54-70.
Translation by Jean Kempf of "Justice for Women!"(1992).
"Luck and Ethics."
In Daniel Statman, ed., Moral
Luck, pp. 73-108. SUNY Series in Ethical Theory. Albany:
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German translation of "Human Functioning and Social Justice:
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"Mitleid und Gnade: Nietzsches Stoizismus."
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"Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach."
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Edited (with Jacques Brunschwig.) Passions and Perceptions: Studies in Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind. Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium Hellenisticum. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
"Poetry and the Passions: Two Stoic Views." In Martha C. Nussbaum and Jacques Brunschwig, eds., Passions and Perceptions, pp. 97-149. New York: Cambridge University Pres, 1993.
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"Reply to Papers."
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Michael Wood's "Aristotle's Anthropocentrism,"
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Modern Philology
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"The Use and Abuse of Philosophy in Legal Education." Stanford Law Review (July 1993), 45(6):1627-1645.
Guest editor (with Terence Irwin) of "
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"Desire and Therapeutics."
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Chapter 2: Medical Dialectic: Aristotle on Theory and Practice:48-77.
Chapter 3: Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical Health:78-101.
Chapter 4: Epicurean Surgery: Argument and Empty Desire:102-139.
Chapter 5: Beyond Obsession and Disgust: Lucretius on the Therapy
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Chapter 6: Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice
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Chapter 7: "
By Words, Not Arms"
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Chapter 8: Skeptic Purgatives: Disturbance and Life without Belief:280-315.
Chapter 9: Stoic Tonics: Philosophy and the Self-Government of
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Chapter 10: The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions:359-401.
Chapter 11: Seneca on Anger in Public Life:402-438.
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La Fragilidad del Bien: Fortuna y Etica en la Tragedia y la
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"`Lawyer for Humanity': Theory and Practice in Ancient Political Thought." In Ian Shapiro and Judith Wagner DeCew, eds., Theory and Practice, pp. 181-215. Nomos, 37. New York: New York University Press, 1995.
"Looking Good, Being Good." Review of Ann Hollander's Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress, and Philippe Perrot's (translated by Richard Bienvenu) Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century, and Gilles Lipovetsky's (translated by Catherine Porter) The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy. New Republic (January 2, 1995), 212(1):29-35.
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Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life. The Alexander Rosenthal Lectures. Boston: Beacon, 1996.
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