How would you summarize this video?

I just discovered Martha Nussbaum last week. What a treasure.

It's just HER opinion; it could be right OR wrong. She isn't God, stop worshipping people. No matter how great they seem to be, when they say something that is just an opinion, it is just that. Additionally, humility is a sign of a truly great person. Just stating an opinion and expecting it to be an axiom is self-righteous at best.

and by living i mean not just OUR own lives, but living TOGETHER

Go back to sleep.

+Rz2750* The director is married to Jeff Mangum, who probably had something to do with the music selections. Neutral Milk Hotel rocks!

I think the song is Dead and Lovely done by Tom Waits

100 % true:)

Kill the state.

@@strelokoperator7509 why not heal it?

@@quaesitor If you're asking whether we should kill or heal the state, your asking what the state is at it core. I'd reckon that a good place to start would be with the state in its earliest forms. One place to look could be Mesopotamia, with the kingdom of Ur. Scholars like the political scientist James C. Scott have argued that the early state relied on the forced labor and migration of its subjects, and the continual enslavement of neighboring people. The accomplishments of early states like writing and monumental architecture were enjoyed mainly by the (small) administrative and ruling class, rather than by its subjects as a whole (Against the Grain). If you look at police brutality, mass incarceration, warfare, trade policies encouraging reliance on sweatshop labor, and the control of movement through national borders, it's pretty clear that this tendency of the state is still in place. Liberalism was supposed to fix this by spreading the benefits of the accomplishments of the state to everyone, but still, people are continuously excluded from those benefits. Even in Norway and Sweden, places liberalism's come close to covering every citizen, it still relies on systems which exclude people from the wealth of the state. For example, Sweden built part of its wealth on the sale of military hardware, notably, to the Nazis. Norway built its wealth on oil, the burning of which is denying wealth (and possibly even life) to future generations. Both those states rely on borders and citizenship papers to determine who's worthy of receiving the benefits of their welfare state. The state is, even at its best, a system which enriches the few through the immiseration of the many.

A documentary called "Examined Life". But be warned, the rest of it is "root canal" bad. These are people who have examined everything but their own life, which was the point of Socrates' words.

No it doesn't. Respect is an evaluation with a positive conclusion. Disrespect is another conclusion. You've missed out the stage pre evaluating where one has yet to reach a conclusion. This is the default position.

I agree. The absence of respect doesn't mean disrespect or treating someone with a lack of basic dignity. Many social issues can arise from giving credit where it *isn't* due. The merit system is imperative.

I believe that is based on a bad sense of justice based on social contract. It's a departure from Aristotle

Could you please qualify your answer?

Was she a he, prior to being a she? I wonder

insomniabelow absolutely unfitting

We can't try to compensate for luck. I might have been taller but I'm not. My issue, my challenge.

Rand's ideas are timeless. Nussbaum is merely rehashing basic liberal tenets.

I don't equate respect and dignity. Basic dignity should be shown to all but respect must be earned. Basically, don't harm people, add unnecessary stress to their lives or try to improve your situation at their expense. My version of expanded Libertarianism. At the society level, we should try to maintain an environment (particularly for children) that provides a standard of dignity.

Similar to how the founders talked about "natural rights"

Good people care about it...the rest will die unhappy.