“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.” PeopleNeedsTryingHumansSelfHuman BeingsOughtVulnerableSufficientGood LifeSelf Sufficient Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“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.” WorldHumansIdeasWholeBigsDiesNationsImaginationHuman BeingsFansNeededMembersDiedWhole WorldRepublicUnits Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.” WorldHumansKindImportantHuman BeingsAbilityRiskConditionsParticularCircumstancesBlamePlantExtremesWillingnessEthicalOpennessFragileExposedUncertainJewelsShatteredInseparableFragilityGood Human BeingFragility Of Life Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“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.” IfsWorldHumansPersonsMadeFeelingsEyeAbleImaginationHuman BeingsViewsMoralPiecesSeriousExerciseRelyContrastDisgustingTrashGood FaithSlugs Book:From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law Source: From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
“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.” HumansFormPoliticalCommunityHuman BeingsHuman LifeTies Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.” WorldHumansKindHuman BeingsAbilityOpennessUncertainFragilityGood Human Being Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
