Rabbia e perdono. La generosità come giustizia

- Food for thought - interesting ideas about the powerlessness that is entailed in anger and the hierarchical essence of forgiveness. - some strange notions on VIS and victims' demands in the criminal justice procedure, which are not backed up by any recent (victimological) literature (i.e., only re Leggi tutto

Een systematische en logische analyse waarom woede niet verstandig is. Woede is gericht op vergleding of statusverhoging. Vergelding lost het punt niet op waar de woede over bestaat en de status gaat ten koste van anderen en is daarmee moreel te verwerpen.

Again, I found Nussbaum to be both extremely incisive and eminently readable. This book builds out one particular strand of a position on the emotions in general that she laid out in _Upheavals of Thought_, which is the book I actually wanted to read but wasn't available at our library. In this work Leggi tutto

A very easily readable text, littered with many illustrative examples of anger (elucidating its weakness) drawn from Nussbaum's own experiences, fiction, and recent historical events. Nussbaum's primary contention was that we ought not to get angry, and ought instead to express unconditional love to Leggi tutto

I wrote a review for this book here: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/...

From New Book Network: http://newbooksnetwork.com/martha-nus... "Anger is among the most familiar phenomena in our moral lives. It is common to think that anger is an appropriate, and sometimes morally required, emotional response to wrongdoing and injustice. In fact, our day-to-day lives are saturat Leggi tutto

This is an amazing book. Lots of food for thought. I highly recommend it couldn't have enjoyed it more. I got a copy from netgalley for my honest review this in no way affects my view on it

Martha Nussbaum's Anger and Forgiveness is a philosophical exploration of the life of the emotions that benefits from numerous case studies, personal examples, and historical references. The fundamental point is that anger per se is a losing proposition. Nussbaum gives two major reasons: 1) being an Leggi tutto

This very passionate and dense text centers around the pernicious elements of both anger and forgiveness within normative social contexts, our criminal justice system, and within elements of various progressive revolutionary movements during the 20th Century. Martha Nussbaum is at all times an eloqu Leggi tutto