Re: Doug Stokes

I just got back from vacation so some of this might be re-hash of what's
been said.

> I seriously doubt that Nassbaum was wishing to be 'morally led' by
wishing
> to know what butler grounds her 'perfomativity' in.

Martha Nussbaum is asking for an ethical criteria--not an epistemological
foundation. She seems to think that it is the universal intellectual's job
to lead the masses towards the Lofty and the Beautiful (see Kant).

~Nate


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