Martha C. Nussbaum Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Philosophy, Thinking, Humanity

• We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to decide for all English literature or no literature, all philosophy or no philosophy. But we have a system that is one part general education and one part specialization. If your parents say you've got to major in computer science, you can do that. But you can also take general education courses in the humanities, and usually you have to.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Country, Art, Philosophy

  Source: www.neh.gov

• I do think there's a lot of bad writing, and I worry about that in philosophy. I worry about it even more in literary studies, but I wouldn't blame it on any one methodology.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Philosophy, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

• There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there were only two things you could do: conceptual analysis or empirical investigation. Any kind of political theory or even ethical theory was nonsense.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Philosophy, School, Two

  Source: www.neh.gov

• Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Philosophy, Thinking, Bridges

  Source: www.neh.gov

• I think that's what we really need in America, for people to hear each other. And I think philosophy could do a little bit better on that.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Philosophy, Thinking, America

  Source: www.neh.gov

• Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Philosophy, Firsts, Principles

  Source: www.neh.gov

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