Compassion and Pity: An Evaluation of Nussbaum’s Analysis and Defense
In this paper I argue that Martha Nussbaum’s Aristotelian analysis of compassion and pity is faulty, largely because she fails to distinguish between (a) an emotion’s basic constitutive conditions and the associated constitutive or “intrinsic” norms, (b) “extrinsic” normative conditions, for instanc...
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Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2005
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2005, Volume: 7, Issue: 5, Pages: 487-511 |
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Martha Nussbaum
B Nietzsche B morality and motivation B Compassion B Pity |
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