A book by this philosopher imagines a fictional career for a female student of Epicurus named Nikidion as a way of comparing the therapeutic arguments of different schools of philosophy. Another book by this philosopher ends by comparing the way that Hecuba’s burial place serves as a guide for sailors to the way that tragedy serves as a guide to ethical deliberation. That book by this philosopher, which argues that Diotima’s theories entail a loss of beauty while Alcibiades’s theories entail a loss of rational planning, is about the primacy of contingency and luck in ethics. This philosopher wrote about the role that disgust plays in the law in her book From Disgust to Humanity. This philosopher collaborated with Amartya Sen to develop the “capability approach” to human welfare. For 10 points, name this University of Chicago philosopher who wrote The Fragility of Goodness. ■END■
ANSWER: Martha Nussbaum [or Martha Craven Nussbaum; or Martha Craven]
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