Professor Martha Nussbaum On Humanity's Obligation To Protect Animal Rights
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🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Ryan speaks with Martha Nussbaum about her new book Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility, the problems that can arise with the Stoic focus on the internal over the external, how the loss of her daughter taught her what to dedicate the rest of her life to, why animals should be considered citizens of a society, the actions that Martha is personally taking to protect animal rights, and more.
Martha Nussbaum is an American philosopher, author, animal rights activist, and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosophy department. She received her BA from NYU and her MA and PhD from Harvard, and she has taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Universities and is currently the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Department of Philosophy and the Law School. Her work, which has garnered 24 major awards since 1990, focuses on Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy and the arts. Her seminal books include Anger, Mercy, Revenge (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca), The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education, and From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law (Inalienable Rights). Since her daughter’s tragic death in 2019, Martha has dedicated her time to picking up the animal rights work that her daughter was passionate about.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired |
| 0:12.6 | by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength |
| 0:18.5 | and insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:21.6 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well-known |
| 0:27.5 | and obscure, fascinating, and powerful. |
| 0:30.8 | With them, we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are |
| 0:35.7 | and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives. |
| 0:40.2 | But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. |
| 0:56.2 | Hey, it's Ryan Holliday, welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | I don't want to leave anyone out here, so if I do, please forget me. |
| 1:07.2 | But there are a few living luminaries in the field of stoicism today, translators, scholars |
| 1:13.6 | on stoicism, Greg Rehaze, who obviously I've raved about many times, is one of them. |
| 1:20.2 | Ed Sellers is one, Massimo Pingaluchi is one, Donald Robertson is one, although not |
| 1:27.1 | necessarily an academic, Shotty Barch, who we've had on the podcast is certainly one. |
| 1:33.3 | And then there is Martha Nussbaum, who is not just a leading scholar on stoicism, but |
| 1:41.2 | one of the leading philosophers of our time, one of the best known philosophers. |
| 1:46.0 | She pops up in the New York Times. |
| 1:48.8 | She gave the Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment at the Humanities in 2016. |
| 1:53.4 | In 2016, she won the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy. |
| 1:57.2 | She won the Bergruin Prize in Philosophy and Culture. |
| 2:00.4 | In 2020, she won the whole Berg Prize. |
| 2:02.8 | In 2022, she won the Balls in Prize. |
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