On disgust and human dignity

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 159-168

  de Melo Martín, Inmaculada ^a   Salles, Arleen ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas CIF   (Argentina)

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EID: 80052376325     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10790-011-9275-z     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Leon Kass, "The Wisdom of Repugnance: Why We Should Ban the Cloning of Humans," New Republic vol. 216 (1997), p. 20.
2. Martha Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004);
3. Martha Nussbaum, From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
4. Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity, p. 321.
5. John Deigh, The Politics of Disgust and Shame," Journal of Ethics vol. 10 (2006).
6. Martha Nussbaum, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), ch. 9.
7. Martha Nussbaum, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000);
8. Martha Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice: Disability,
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10. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development, ch. 1;
11. Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice
12. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development, ch. 1;
13. Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice, ch. 3.
14. Ibid.
15. Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice, ch. 3.
16. Nussbaum, Women and Development, ch. 1.
17. Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 1.
18. Ibid.
19. Paul Rozin and April E. Fallon, "A Perspective on Disgust," Psychological Review vol. 94 (1987);
20. Paul Rozin, Jonathan Haidt, Clark McCauley, "Disgust: The Body and Soul Emotion," in T. Dalgleish and M. Power, eds., Handbook of Cognition and Emotion (Chichester, Englad: John Wiley, 1999);
21. Paul Rozin, Jonathan Haidt, Clark R. McCauley, "Disgust," in M. Lewis and J. Haviland, eds., Handbook of Emotions 3rd ed (New York: Guilford, 2008).
22. William I. Miller, The Anatomy of Disgust (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997), p. 50.
23. Rozin, Haidt, and McCauley, "Disgust."
24. Ibid.
25. Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity, p. 88.
26. Ibid., p. 92.
27. Ibid., p. 14.
28. Jonathan Haidt, Paul Rozin, Clark McCauley, and Sumio Imada, "Body, Psyche, and Culture: The Relationship between Disgust and Morality," Psychology and Developing Societies, Vol. 9 (1997), p. 121;
29. Jonathan Haidt, "The Moral Emotions," in R. J. Davidson, K. R. Scherer, & H. H. Goldsmith, eds., Handbook of affective sciences (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
30. Aurel Kolnai, On Disgust, B. Smith and C. Korsmeyer, eds. (Chicago: Open Court, 2004).
31. Patrick Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).
32. William Miller, op. cit.;
33. Dan Kahan, "The Progressive Appropriation of Disgust," in Susan Bandes ed., The Passions of Law (New York and London: New York University Press, 1999), pp. 63-79.
34. John Kekes, "Disgust and Moral Taboos," Philosophy vol. 67 (1992).
35. Kass, op. cit.
36. Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity, p. 102.
37. Ibid., pp 107-115.
38. Nussbaum, Upheavals, p. 221.
39. Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity, p. 18.
40. Ibid., p. 117.
41. Ibid., p. 166.
42. Ibid., p. 165.
43. Ibid.
44. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.;
47. Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice.
48. Martha Nussbaum, "Human Dignity and Political Entitlements" in Human Dignity and Bioethics:Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics (Washington D.C.: President's Council on Bioethics 2008), p. 359.
49. Nussbaum, From Disgust to Humanity, p. 51.
50. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development, p. 72.
51. We would like to thank Craig Hanks, Carolyn Korsmeyer, and Victoria Costa for helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. We would also like to thank the four anonymous referees and Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for their helpful comments and suggestions. We are also grateful to the National Science Foundation, Ethics, Technology, and Society program, award number SES-0723809 for funding to IdMM and to the Argentinean Agency for the Promotion of Scientific Research for support to AS. Notes.