Taking novels as the breakthrough point,the American thinker,Martha C.Nussbaum,strongly criticizes the materialization of human beings by economic utilitarianism and legal economics,as well as the estrangement and ind...Taking novels as the breakthrough point,the American thinker,Martha C.Nussbaum,strongly criticizes the materialization of human beings by economic utilitarianism and legal economics,as well as the estrangement and indifference between human beings in the book Poetic Justice:The Literary Imagination and Public Life.Through being read,the novels enter into the field of public life,expand the area of human emotion,preach human justice and promote the perfection of human values.展开更多
How can Western political thought engage non-Western cultures if liberalism is--in Thomas Nagel＇s famous formulation-a view from nowhere？ This paper seeks to investigate the philosophical problems at the nexus of mo...How can Western political thought engage non-Western cultures if liberalism is--in Thomas Nagel＇s famous formulation-a view from nowhere？ This paper seeks to investigate the philosophical problems at the nexus of moral relativism and liberal universalism that Martha Nussbaum attempted to come to terms with in her essay Human Functioning and Social Justice： In Defense of Aristotelian Essentialism. I argue not against the idea of essentialism but rather for greater care in the concept＇s application.展开更多
文摘Taking novels as the breakthrough point,the American thinker,Martha C.Nussbaum,strongly criticizes the materialization of human beings by economic utilitarianism and legal economics,as well as the estrangement and indifference between human beings in the book Poetic Justice:The Literary Imagination and Public Life.Through being read,the novels enter into the field of public life,expand the area of human emotion,preach human justice and promote the perfection of human values.
文摘How can Western political thought engage non-Western cultures if liberalism is--in Thomas Nagel＇s famous formulation-a view from nowhere？ This paper seeks to investigate the philosophical problems at the nexus of moral relativism and liberal universalism that Martha Nussbaum attempted to come to terms with in her essay Human Functioning and Social Justice： In Defense of Aristotelian Essentialism. I argue not against the idea of essentialism but rather for greater care in the concept＇s application.
