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Compassion & terror | American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, is appointed in the philosophy department, Law School, and Divinity School. A Fellow of the American Academy since 1988, Nussbaum is the author of numerous books, including The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (1986), The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (1994), and Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (2001). This essay was originally delivered as the first Kristeller Memorial Lecture at Columbia University in April of 2002. Nussbaum writes, “Although I am sure Paul Kristeller would have taken issue with some aspects of its approach to classical texts, it is offered as a sincere tribute to his life of committed scholarship, which did so much to keep these texts alive in and for our time.” The name of our land has been wiped out. – Euripides, Trojan Women Not to be a fan of the Greens or Blues at

Compassion & terror Author Martha Craven Nussbaum Author Information Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, is appointed in the philosophy department, Law School, and Divinity School. A Fellow of the American Academy since 1988, Nussbaum is the author of numerous books, including The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (1986), The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (1994), and Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (2001). This essay was originally

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