Martha Nussbaum Quotes
I think we've lost the idea that politicians are part of the humanities. And we think of them as part of a natural science tradition, and we don't expect them to have the contact with literature, with history, with the richness of descriptive language that the humanities have always stood for. And I think that's a great loss.
Nussbaum, Martha. Interview by Bill Moyers. A World of Ideas: Ideas and Opinions from Some of Today's Most Creative Thinkers, edited by Betty Sue Flowers, Doubleday, 1989.
1st Baron Macaulay. In reality neither politics nor political science is yet a true science. And it has not developed to the same degree that the physical sciences which utilize mathematics have done.
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.
