The Pitfalls of “Love and Kindness”: On the Challenges to Compassion/Pity as a Political Emotion
Martha Nussbaum’s political theory of compassion offers an extensive and compelling study of the potential of employing compassionate emotions in the political realm to further social justice and societal “love”. In this article, two pitfalls of Nussbaum’s affirming theory of a politics of compassio...
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| Language: | English |
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Cogitatio
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Politics and Governance |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1393 |