Catchword: wisdom of repugnance

Filed Under: English, Politics

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: Professor Nussbaum is certainly right that feelings of disgust, like feelings of shame, are extra- if not irrational: we don’t argue ourselves into disgust or shame: we feel it immediately. Professor Nussbaum is deeply suspicious of those feelings. She sharply criticizes the physician-philosopher Leon Kass for advocating the “wisdom of repugnance”—the wisdom of disgust and revulsion—because our disgust might be misplaced.

Article or Document Title:
“Does shame have a future?” (URL)

Author:
Roger Kimball

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
New Criterion

Date of Publication:
Sept. 1, 2004

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