2023-11-27
31 分钟Today we talk about the lessons found in the ancient Greek play titled Hecuba. We talk about the great Stoic ethicists Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. We talk about Martha Nussbaum and her work looking to infuse classical Stoic ideas with all that we've learned in the sciences over thousands of years. We talk about compassion. Shame and guilt. Her capabilities approach. It's a whole lot of fun for the whole family. :)
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I'm Stephen west.
This is philosophize this.
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philosophizethis so today we're going to be talking about a person many consider to be one of the greatest philosophers alive.
Today we're going to be talking about Martha Nussbaum.
And I want to start today with a story.
It's a story that's very important to Martha Nussbaum.
It's a story, she said earlier on in her career she'd sometimes be kept up at night thinking about it and its disturbing implications about what it is to be a person.
It's a story where we won't fully understand just how relevant it is to this digital panopticon we're living in until about the end of the episode.
The story is a play.
It's written in ancient Greece by the great playwright Euripides.
The story we're talking about today is called Hecuba.
Now, Hecuba was the name of the historically famous queen of Troy, mother of Hector.
You know that guy Brad Pitt, killed in 1997, wife of Agamemnon, but a formidable person in her own right.
Now, most of her story's pretty tragic.
Her kingdom falls.