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Title: The Fragility of Goodness : Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy by Martha C. Nussbaum ISBN: 0-521-79472-2 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What were they reading?
Comment: In this book, Ms. Nussbaum takes on one of the most challenging and heart-rending questions raised by the ancient poets and philosophers: what is the relationship between goodness (good character, right action) and having a good life (happiness, human flourishing)?
With the tragedians, and against some of the philosophers (notably Plato), Ms. Nussbaum considers the possibility that right action and right thinking cannot protect us from the pain of life's contingencies, and (much worse) that sheer bad luck can blight character itself.
Ms. Nussbaum addresses the issues and the texts with respect for their subtlety, with imaginative insight, and with her characteristic regard for reason. Every time she discusses a text, I come away knowing more about that text--and more about life.
"Comforting platitudes" and "sloppy" exegesis? No. Not hardly.
Rating: 4
Summary: A different read
Comment: There are two ways one might approach the Fragility of Goodness. One might approach the text in search of careful exegesis of classical texts. If this is one's aim, one will probably be disappointed with what Nussbaum provides in this book. On the other hand, one might approach the text in search of a thought-provoking discussion of important issues in moral and political philosophy. If the latter is one's concern, then Nussbaum's work is rich, exciting and well worth reading.
Rating: 1
Summary: Nussbaum the sloppy
Comment: I agree with the reviewer who finds Nussbaum a careless reader. I have found in almost everything of hers I have read that she tends to base long, intricate arguments on small parts of what someone says--parts that aren't representative of their larger point--and distorts and misrepresents those she writes about. She does this whether writing about an ancient author or a contemporary. How she can do this over and over--and do so in high-profile forums--yet retain her great reputation is beyond me. (Come to think of it, shouldn't those who publish her writings have learned by now that they need an army of editors to fix her work?) Those who like comforting platitudes and the veneer of learnedness and scholarship should enjoy her books, but anyone who wants arguments to be sound and to be on sound foundations should be dumbfounded and distressed that someone like her can be so respected in academia.
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Title: Upheavals of Thought : The Intelligence of Emotions by Martha C. Nussbaum ISBN: 0521531829 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Therapy of Desire by Martha C. Nussbaum ISBN: 0691000522 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 16 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature by Martha Craven Nussbaum ISBN: 0195074858 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Martha Craven Nussbaum ISBN: 0674179498 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle, David Ross, W. D. Ross, J. L. Ackrill, J. O. Urmson ISBN: 019283407X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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