Hi Platt, thanks very much for this reference, which I shall certainly be
chasing up. I'm familiar with Nussbaum, as I am currently reading (extremely
slowly) her earlier book 'The fragility of goodness' which is how the Greeks
coped with the fact of moral luck, or why bad things happen to good people.
I think these ideas are 'in the air' at the moment - Daniel Goleman's
Emotional Intelligence is a good introduction to the field.
I sometimes think that the Greeks had every original thought that's possible
within Western style thinking. I hope that's not true (Pirsig is a partial
exception to that, of course).
Thanks again
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: MD Beauty & DQ
> Hi Sam:
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> You wrote:
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> >Second element: rationality is subject to emotion in our decision
> >making processes.
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> In case you are not aware of it there's a new book out by Martha C.
> Nussbaum entitled: UPHEAVALS OF THOUGHT, The Intelligence of
> Emotions. From what I read in the review of the book in the NYTimes,
> Nussbuam seems to support your thesis. Here's an excerpt from the
> review:
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> ''Upheavals of Thought'' is a staggering feat of synthesis, reflecting not
> only Nussbaum's wide-ranging expertise in philosophy, law, divinity,
> classics, Asian studies and gender studies but recent developments
> in cognitive psychology, anthropology and psychoanalysis as well. She
> shows herself an impassioned literary and musical critic, too, and
> credits the arts for our most enlightening emotional instruction. Marcel
> Proust, whom she considers ''in some ways the most profound object-
> relations psychoanalyst of all,'' provides her title, in his observation
that
> love ''produces real geological upheavals of thought.'' Her central claim
> is that emotions like love and grief, far from irrational distractions,
are
> ''intelligent responses to the perception of value.'' They proceed from
> judgments we make concerning objects and people that are beyond
> our control but important to our flourishing, and as such are ''part and
> parcel of the system of ethical reasoning.''
>
> The full review can be found at:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/books/review/18STEINET.html?se
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> Platt
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