The victim shows us something about our own lives: we see that we too are vulnerable to misfortune, that we are not any different from the people whose fate we are watching…
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum, who turns 69 today and who is one of the most incisive thinkers of our time, on human dignity and the nuanced relationship between agency and victimhood.
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