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Single Idea 21026
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / f. Compassion
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Full Idea
Daniel Batson's important research has shown us that compassion is not reliable on its own, because it can easily give priority to people close to the self.
Gist of Idea
Compassion is unreliable, because it favours people close to us
Source
Martha Nussbaum (Creating Capabilities [2011], 8)
Book Ref
Nussbaum,Martha C.: 'Creating Capabilities' [Belknap Harvard 2013], p.180
A Reaction
In Britain animal charities receive vastly more money than children's charities, presumably for this very reason. Kittens - you've got to hate them.
The
22 ideas
from Martha Nussbaum
21007
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Storytelling is never neutral; some features of the world must be emphasised
[Nussbaum]
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21008
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Liberalism does not need a comprehensive account of value
[Nussbaum]
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21009
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Capabilities: Life, Health, Safety, Mental life, Love, Planning, Joining in, Nature, Play, Control
[Nussbaum, by PG]
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21010
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Justice requires that the ten main capabilities of people are reasonably enabled
[Nussbaum]
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21013
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Capabilities are grounded in bare humanity and agency; qualifying as rational is not needed
[Nussbaum]
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21014
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Rights are not just barriers against state interference; governments must affirm capabilities of citizens
[Nussbaum]
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21011
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We shouldn't focus on actual preferences, which may be distorted by injustices
[Nussbaum]
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21015
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Negative liberty is incoherent; all liberties, to do and to be, require the prevention of interference
[Nussbaum]
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21016
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Political and civil rights are not separate from economic and social rights
[Nussbaum]
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21012
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Women are often treated like children, and not respected for their choices
[Nussbaum]
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21017
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Political freedom is an incoherent project, because some freedoms limit other freedoms
[Nussbaum]
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21019
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Social contracts assume equal powers among the participants
[Nussbaum]
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21020
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Any establishment belief system is incompatible with full respect for all citizens
[Nussbaum]
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21023
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We should respect animals in the way that we respect the animal nature in humans
[Nussbaum]
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21024
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It may be no harm to kill an animal which cannot plan for its future
[Nussbaum]
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21021
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Keep premises as weak as possible, to avoid controversial difficulties
[Nussbaum]
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21025
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Particularism gives no guidance for the future
[Nussbaum]
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21026
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Compassion is unreliable, because it favours people close to us
[Nussbaum]
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21022
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The Capabilities Approach sees animals as agents, not just as having feelings
[Nussbaum]
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22688
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The Aristotelian idea that choices can be perceived needs literary texts to expound it
[Nussbaum]
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21125
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Liberals must respect family freedom - but families are the great oppressors of women
[Nussbaum]
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21836
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Philosophers after Aristotle endorsed the medical analogy for eudaimonia
[Nussbaum, by Flanagan]
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