Eugster Law & Comment

Where are those few lawyers of the late 60’s and early 70’s who cared about the poor, the outcast, the overwhelmed, the environment, the public trust, the public interest?  They no longer exist, for the very most part.  The lawyers, judges, people who appoint judges, the people who elect judges, the law schools and the professors [...]

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In an interview with Bill Moyers, Martha Nussbaum, speaking of the tragic sense of life said she thought ethics was founded upon an inner sense or hope that others could be trusted to be ethical, good.   I later read a comment in conjunction with her book The Fragility of Goodness  that
[s]he eventually rejects the Platonic notion that [...]

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Martha Nussbaum speaking to Bill Moyers about ethics, trust in others and the hope of such trust, and tragedy on YouTube here.  For more about Martha Nussbaum see Taimur Kahn’s website.

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