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Martha Nussbaum

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Bill Moyers talked with ethicist and classist Martha Nussbaum about the fragility of human goodness for the 1988 series, A WORLD OF IDEAS.

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control...

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