Trevor pateman biography books
For twenty years, he taught at the University of Sussex....
Anger and Forgiveness by Martha Nussbaum
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Trevor Pateman looks at problems with anger and forgiveness.
This book by one of America’s leading philosophers originated in Martha Nussbaum’s 2014 John Locke lectures at Oxford University.
Trevor Pateman was born in England in After a state school education, he studied in Oxford, London, and Paris where he was a pupil of Roland Barthes.
It’s very wide-ranging, starting in Ancient Greece and ending in the liberation struggles and civil rights movements of twentieth century India, USA, and South Africa. It stays throughout with a few key concepts – anger, forgiveness, gratitude, punishment, justice.
Nussbaum characterises her overall ethical and political vision as essentially ‘welfarist’, indebted both to utilitarians (specifically J.S.
Mill) and liberals (specifically John Rawls). From t