Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on Human Dignity and the Nuanced Relationship Between Agency and Victimhood – The Marginalian

“The victim shows us something about our own lives: we see that we too are vulnerable to misfortune, that we are not any different from the people whose fate we are watching…”

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