Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Martha Nussbaum
Born: May 6, 1947 (age 78)
Bio: Martha Craven Nussbaum is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, a chair that includes appointments in the philosophy department and the law school.
Known for:
- Upheavals of thought (2001)
- Creating Capabilities (2010)
- The Fragility of Goodness (1986)
- Political Emotions (2013)
- The New Religious Intolerance (2012)