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Review of Martha Nussbaum, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

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  1. Sternberg’s first recommendation for education for wisdom is that teachers “explore with students the notion that conventional abilities and achievements are not enough for a satisfying life. Many people become trapped in their lives and, despite feeling conventionally successful, feel that their lives lack fulfillment. Fulfillment is not an alternative to success, but rather, is an aspect of it that, for most people, goes beyond money, promotions, large houses, and so forth” (2001, p. 238).

  2. The program’s official website is www.montclair.edu/iapc, accessed 2/25/11.

  3. Nussbaum makes oblique reference to this connection in explaining how “Mahatma Gandhi, one of the primary architects of an independent and democratic India, understood very well that the political struggle for freedom and equality must first of all be a struggle within each person, as compassion and respect contend against fear, greed, and narcissistic aggression. He repeatedly drew attention to the connection between psychological balance and political balance, arguing that greedy desire, aggression, and narcissistic anxiety are forces inimical to the building of a free and democratic nation” (29).

  4. http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/psq.html, accessed 12/30/10.

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Gregory, M.R. Review of Martha Nussbaum, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities . Stud Philos Educ 30, 419–427 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-011-9249-4

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