MARTA NUSBAUMA: HUMĀNISMS, EMOCIJU TERAPIJA UN RELIĢISKĀ IECIETĪBA
MARTHA NUSSBAUM: HUMANISM, THERAPY OF EMOTIONS AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE

Summary/Abstract: American philosopher Martha Nussbaum has been one of the most prolific authors in the world’s philosophical milieu during the last three decades (more than 35 books, numerous scientific articles, etc.). However, it is difficult to attribute her writings to any particular philosophical approach, rather we can talk about a number of philosophical influences, such as classical Greek philosophy (Socrates, Aristotle and Stoics), liberalism, pragmatism and theory of justice ( John Rawls and Lionel Trilling), social economic research (Adam Smith and Amartya Sen), and others. Her thought moves along the margins and into the overlapping fields of different approaches and social practices. In the secondary literature her route has been described as the one of realistic humanist and/or neo-stoic. The focus of the present article is Nussbaum’s analysis of the phenomenon of contemporary religious intolerance (paying special attention to the book The New Religious Intolerance. Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age) along the lines of the medical model of philosophy proposed by her in The Therapy of Desire. Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics. This accounts for the structure of the article – from diagnosis to therapy of emotions.

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