Featuring the 2016 Arts and Philosophy Kyoto Prize Laureate Martha Craven Nussbaum, PhD
Martha Craven Nussbaum introduced the notion of incorporating individual human capabilities (what each person is able to do or be) into the criteria for social justice, beyond the conventional theory of equality based on a social contract among rational individuals. She established a new theory of justice that ensures the inclusion of the weak and marginalized, who are deprived of opportunities to develop their capabilities in society, and has proposed ways to apply this theory in the real world.
Nussbaum is the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, and she is the author or editor of a number of books, including The Fragility of Goodness (1986), Sex and Social Justice (1998), The Sleep of Reason (2002), Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (2004), Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (2006), and Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs Humanities (2010).
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
Camino Hall, Shiley Theatre
5998 Alcala Park
University of San Diego
San Diego, CA 92110
Thursday, March 16 - 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Martha Craven Nussbaum introduced the notion of incorporating individual human capabilities (what each person is able to do or be) into the criteria for social justice, beyond the conventional theory of equality based on a social contract among rational individuals. She established a new theory of justice that ensures the inclusion of the weak and marginalized, who are deprived of opportunities to develop their capabilities in society, and has proposed ways to apply this theory in the real world.
Nussbaum is the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, and she is the author or editor of a number of books, including The Fragility of Goodness (1986), Sex and Social Justice (1998), The Sleep of Reason (2002), Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (2004), Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (2006), and Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs Humanities (2010).
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
Camino Hall, Shiley Theatre
5998 Alcala Park
University of San Diego
San Diego, CA 92110
Thursday, March 16 - 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
