Episode 144: Guest Martha Nussbaum on Anger
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2016
⏱️ 145 minutes
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Summary
On Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice (2016). What role should we allow anger to play in our public life? Should systems of punishment be utilitarian, or should they be retributive? Nussbaum thinks that anger necessarily involves the desire for payback, which is unhelpful. We should instead use anger to prevent future harm. Mark, Wes, and Dylan interview Martha and then discuss issues raised in the interview and the book.
End song: "Forgive the Disco," a Nussbaum-inspired Mark vocal on an instrumental by Sean Beeson, interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music #23.
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| 0:35.4 | a philosophy podcast by some guys who had one point set on doing philosophy for living, |
| 0:38.9 | but then thought better of it. |
| 0:40.2 | Our question for episode 144 is something like, |
| 0:43.5 | should anger be accommodated by our political institutions? |
| 0:46.7 | And we read, anger and forgiveness, resentment generosity, |
| 0:49.8 | justice by Martha C. Lucebaum, and are talking with her in studio today. |
| 0:54.2 | This is Mark Linton Meyer cultivating my bare moral relations in medicine Wisconsin. |
| 0:59.2 | This is Wes Allen and Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 1:01.8 | This is Dylan Casey at the University of Chicago and Chicago Illinois. |
| 1:05.7 | And this is Martha C. Lucebaum at the University of Chicago. |
| 1:09.3 | We are beyond thrilled to be talking to you, |
| 1:11.9 | and I've really enjoyed this book, I gotta say. |
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