[lit-ideas] Nussbaum Does It Again

 
 
In a message dated 3/24/2008 6:50:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rpaul@xxxxxxxx writes:

That  there might be other ways of 
being precise, other conceptions of lucidity  and completeness that might 
be held to be more appropriate for ethical  thought—this was, on the 
whole, neither asserted or even  denied.'

—Martha Nussbaum, ‘Form and Content: Philosophy and  Literature,’ in her 
collection Love’s Knowledge,  1990.





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Hi, Robert,

I'm cc-ing, because Andreas and Teemu don't seem to be forwarding my  posts 
to Lit-Ideas. 
 
In any case, I liked the passage by Nussbaum.
 
But what she is into? (or What is she into?, if you must)
 
Strictly, what is more appropriate for ethical THOUGHT is ethical ACTION!  
Not literary prose!
 
I'm reading Thomas's Loeb -- "Mathematical Thought" -- from Thales to  
Euclid, and from what's his name to Pappus. 
What magnificent prose, Euclides has!
 
I suppose Nussbaum knows what she is doing, because she's done classics,  but 
has she read Euclid, in the vernacular?
Also, shouldn't it be Love's _Wisdom_, which doesn't make sense,  
incidentally. "Episteme" sounds so restricting!
 
Cheers,
 
JL
 
 
 



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