Theorein and Praxis: Gender Political Troubles. An interview with Martha Nussbaum
Keywords:
Political Philosophy, Capabilities Approach, Martha Nussbaum
Abstract
Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach is one of the most meaningful perspectives towards the conflicts that come from social and cultural assumptions regarding gender. Martha Nussbaum, a prominent philosopher at the University of Chicago, proposes that philosophy should be deeply attached to the average people and their real.life problems. Since her early works: The Fragility of Goodness and Therapy of Desire, her main concern has been to improve people's quality of life; from these works, any reader can have a better framework on what Nussbaum recognizes as the main aspects for human development and how they can be obtained.References
Nussbaum, Martha. 1986. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, Cambrdige, Cambridge University Press.
Nussbaum, Martha. 1999. Sex and Social Justice, New York, Oxford University Press.
Cambridge University Press.
Nussbaum, Martha. 2006. Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership, Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Scanlon, T.M. 2008. Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame, Cambridge, Har- vard University Press.
Published
2011-07-01
How to Cite
Ibarra Soto, D. (2011). Theorein and Praxis: Gender Political Troubles. An interview with Martha Nussbaum. Open Insight, 2(2), 173-187. https://doi.org/10.23924/oi.v2i2.31
Section
Colloquium
