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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 (10[1])deliberation. That book by this philosopher, which argues that Diotima’s theories entail a loss of beauty while (10[1])Alcibiades’s (10[2])theories entail a loss of rational (10[1])planning, (10[1])is about the primacy of contingency and luck in (10[1])ethics. (10[2])This philosopher wrote about the role that disgust plays (10[1])in the law in her book From Disgust to Humanity. (10[3])This philosopher collaborated with Amartya Sen (10[1])to develop (10[1])the (10[1])“capability approach” to human welfare. For 10 points, name this University (10[1])of Chicago (10[1])philosopher who wrote The Fragility of Goodness. ■END■ (10[1]0[5])

ANSWER: Martha Nussbaum [or Martha Craven Nussbaum; or Martha Craven]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2190%0%0%103.74

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech APenn State A6010
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AColumbia B7710
Mitch McCullarIllinois AChicago C7810
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AChicago B7810
Tim MorrisonStanford ANorthwestern A8410
Clark SmithOhio State AColumbia A8510
Joel MilesMinnesota AHarvard A9410
James StevensonMichigan AMIT A9510
Caleb KendrickMaryland ARutgers A9510
Anson BernsBrown ACornell B10410
Jack ObermanSouth Carolina APurdue A11410
Alana DickeyVirginia AImperial A11410
Brad MacLaineTexas ARutgers B11410
Halle FriedmanNYU AMinnesota B12010
Tracy MirkinFlorida AYale B12210
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BWUSTL B12310
Swapnil GargUC Berkeley AJohns Hopkins A13410
Daniel MaYale AMcGill A13610
Tomás Aguilar-FragaClaremont AGeorgia Tech B1440
S. A. ShenoyGeorgia Tech BClaremont A1440
Jerry LinDuke AFlorida B14410
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BDuke A1440
Sean DoyleHouston APenn A1440
Anirudh BharadwajPenn AHouston A1440