Martha Nussbaum Quotes
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.
Nussbaum, Martha C. The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis. Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Expressing his feeling regarding President Grover Cleveland who failed to deal with serious economic problems:
Martha Craven Nussbaum is an American philosopher 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 has a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy, existentialism, feminism, and ethics, including animal rights. She also holds associate appointments in classics, divinity, and political science, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a board member of the Human Rights Program. She previously taught at Harvard and Brown.
