From disgust to humanity: Book cover.
Book review by Joshua F Leach.
From disgust to humanity
Sexual orientation and constitutional law
Martha C Nussbaum
Oxford University Press, 2010.
We must remember that history will judge all of us, whether or not it remembers our names. One person whom history will judge kindly is Martha Nussbaum, a major political philosopher at the University of Chicago.
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She springs from an intellectual line of descent that stretches from the nineteenth century abolitionists and prison reformers to the twentieth century civil rights activists and conscientious objectors. Just as these prior activists recognised the moral requirements of their time, so Nussbaum has put her finger on our generation’s great moral choice: do we extend equal rights and sympathy to homosexuals, or, do we regard them as base, vile, or unworthy?In From disgust to humanity, Nussbaum provides an answer.
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