Name: Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations About Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regrets: Conversations About Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regrets:
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Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
ISBN: 9780190092313

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Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations About Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regrets: Conversations About Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regrets:

Type

Physical Book

Author

Saul Levmore

Martha C. Nussbaum

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

264

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.6 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780190092313

Synopsis "Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations About Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regrets: Conversations About Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regrets: "

We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a philosopher's approach with a lawyer-economist's. Here are ideas about when to retire, how to refashion social security to help the elderly poor, how to learn from King Lear -- who did not retire successfully -- and whether to enjoy or criticize anti-aging cosmetic procedures. Some of the concerns are practical: philanthropic decisions, relations with one's children and grandchildren, the purchase of annuities, and how to provide for care in old age. Other topics are cultural, ranging from the treatment of aging women in a Strauss opera and various popular films, to a consideration of Donald Trump's (and other men's) marriages to much younger women. These engaging, thoughtful, and often humorous exchanges show how stimulating discussions about our inevitable aging can be, and offer valuable insight into how we all might age more thoughtfully, and with zest and friendship.

Martha C. Nussbaum

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Martha Craven Nussbaum (New York, USA, 1947) studied at her hometown university and earned a PhD in Law and Ethics at Harvard in 1975. Founder and coordinator of the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism, she is currently the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the Department of Philosophy, the Law School, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, after having taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford.

Considered one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices in the current landscape and a defender of the role of the humanities in education, Nussbaum advocates in her work a universal conception of women's rights that can overcome the limits of cultural relativism. Her theories start from the conviction that people who understand the good differently can agree on some universal ethical principles that are applicable wherever there is a situation of inequality and injustice. She has also proposed a constitutional and political framework respectful of local traditions and institutions that can be translated into political objectives in specific contexts, laying the groundwork for ethically justifying development aid.

Between 1986 and 1993, she was a research advisor at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (Helsinki, Finland), which is part of the United Nations University. She has chaired the Committee for International Cooperation and the Committee on the Status of Women, both of the American Philosophical Association. She has been a member of the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Council of Learned Societies Union.

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