Martha Nussbaum on the Value of the Humanities
Philosophy Bites
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University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum talks to Nigel Warberton. She says the humanities are being cut back in Western countries because they don't make short-term profit. Democracy requires a certain kind of self-exact combination, she says. And for that you have to lead the examined life as Socrates said and for all of that you need philosophy.
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