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Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, in the law. Martha Nussbaum argues that we should be wary of these emotions because they are associated in troubling ways with a desire to hide from our humanity, embodying an unrealistic and sometimes pathological wish to be invulnerable. Nussbaum argues that the thought-content of disgust embodies 'magical ideas of contamination, and impossible aspirations to purity that are just not in line with human life as we know it.'She argues that disgust should never be the basis for criminalizing an act, or play either the aggravating or the mitigating role in criminal law it currently does. She writes that we should be similarly suspicious of what she calls 'primitive shame,' a shame 'at the very fact of human imperfection,' and she is harshly critical of the role that such shame plays in certain punishments. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich variety of philosophical, psychological, and historical references - from Aristotle and Freud to Nazi ideas about purity - and on legal examples as diverse as the trials of Oscar Wilde and the Martha Stewart insider trading case, this is a major work of legal and moral philosophy.
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Often, contentious social issues like gay marriage, pornography and stem cell research are framed in terms of religion, morality and the public good. This erudite and engaging treatise contends that these debates are frequently really about the primal emotions of disgust and shame. Philosophy professor Nussbaum, author of Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions, challenges a number of fashionable intellectual currents, including Leon Kass痴 notion of a bioethics based on "the wisdom of repugnance" and communitarian Amitai Etzioni痴 championing of public humiliation of drunk drivers and other criminals. In response to advocates of populist reflexes of disgust and shame as a cure for social degeneracy, she mounts a critical defense of the classical liberal philosophy of John Stuart Mill, one refounded on a psychoanalytic theory of the emotions. She argues that while disgust and shame are inescapable psychological reactions against human animality, weakness and decay, injecting them into law and politics ends up projecting these troubling aspects of ourselves onto stigmatized groups like homosexuals, women, Jews and the disabled, and is therefore incompatible with a liberal and humane society. Writing in an academically sophisticated but accessible style, Nussbaum is equally at home discussing Aristotle and Freud, Whitman痴 poetry and Supreme Court case law. The result is an exceptionally smart, stimulating and intellectually rigorous analysis that adds an illuminating psychological dimension to our understanding of law and public policy.
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法律において感情とは何か。感情（emotion)＝主観的・ネガティブ、理性(reason)＝客観的・ポジティブとされる。しかし、法的効果を与える過程で「理にかなった感情」とそうでないものに値踏され、法に重大な影響を与える。つまり、感情を排除し客観であるはずの法は、無意識下に感情(feeling)と感情(emotion)を振り分け、法に必要な感情(resonable emotion)だけを取り込み大衆の理解のために利用する。「被害者らの恐怖・無念は言うに及ばず、遺族らの被害感情も極めて厳しい・・」（リンチ殺人判決）などは、まさにこうした感情を用いて説得力を得たテキストとなる。
２００８年末に米国連邦最高裁が Kelly v California 事件の地方最高裁の判断を認めたのは、陪審裁判において被害者の母親（弁護士でもある）が制作した殺害された娘の成育の一端を示すスライドとビデオを用いた２０分余りのビデオクリップ（ＥＮＹＡのＢＧＭ付き）を証拠として認めたということである。被害者は単なる殺人の証拠ではなく、被害者遺族にとって人として生きてきた証であるという。法廷では、こうした証拠（Victim Impact Evidence ）の扱いが問題とされ、当該裁判では「過度に感情的なもの」とは言えず「淡々とした」映像であったと判断されたのである。
日本では、Kelly v California 事件の判断直後に、「闇サイト殺人事件」の１審が行われ、ここでも初めて法廷で被害者の半生をつづったスライドが投影された。ちょうど「裁判員裁判」が施行される前だったので、これからのビジュアルな法廷の前座と思われていた。実は、米国の裁判に影響されていたのである。
犯罪は、感情的に行われた行為であるといわれるが、果たしてそうだろうか。むしろ、実行者の頭の中で理性的に判断された結果、自らの不公正さに後押しされ、出てしまった行動なのではないか。本人にとっては理由ある行為であるが、困ったことに相手にとって理不尽な結果となる。このように、感情は振り子のように冷静と興奮の間で揺れ動くものである。マーサ・ヌスバウム『感情と法』は、この感情という厄介な代物を面白く分析している。
２００８年末に米国連邦最高裁が Kelly v California 事件の地方最高裁の判断を認めたのは、陪審裁判において被害者の母親（弁護士でもある）が制作した殺害された娘の成育の一端を示すスライドとビデオを用いた２０分余りのビデオクリップ（ＥＮＹＡのＢＧＭ付き）を証拠として認めたということである。被害者は単なる殺人の証拠ではなく、被害者遺族にとって人として生きてきた証であるという。法廷では、こうした証拠（Victim Impact Evidence ）の扱いが問題とされ、当該裁判では「過度に感情的なもの」とは言えず「淡々とした」映像であったと判断されたのである。
日本では、Kelly v California 事件の判断直後に、「闇サイト殺人事件」の１審が行われ、ここでも初めて法廷で被害者の半生をつづったスライドが投影された。ちょうど「裁判員裁判」が施行される前だったので、これからのビジュアルな法廷の前座と思われていた。実は、米国の裁判に影響されていたのである。
犯罪は、感情的に行われた行為であるといわれるが、果たしてそうだろうか。むしろ、実行者の頭の中で理性的に判断された結果、自らの不公正さに後押しされ、出てしまった行動なのではないか。本人にとっては理由ある行為であるが、困ったことに相手にとって理不尽な結果となる。このように、感情は振り子のように冷静と興奮の間で揺れ動くものである。マーサ・ヌスバウム『感情と法』は、この感情という厄介な代物を面白く分析している。
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The Case Against Disgust and Shame As a Basis for Law and Punishment
2006/4/8
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The thesis presented in this book is relatively simple. Human beings are deeply troubled about being human--being highly intelligent and resourceful, on the one hand, but weak and vulnerable, helpless against death, on the other. We are ashamed of this awkward condition and, in many ways, we try to hide from it. In the process, we develop sentiments such as shame at human frailty and disgust at the signs of our animality and mortality.
In addition, we use these two emotions to project our fears on marginalized groups or people who come to embody the dominant group's fear and loathing of its own human frailty. Disgust and shame are therefore two potent human emotions, but they are also problematic and should not be used as a reference in law formulation or legal punishment. On the contrary, law should protect citizens from insults to their dignity such as shaming and scapegoating.
Martha Nussbaum describes her book as "an essay about the psychological foundations of liberalism" and she makes great use of experimental data, including materials from child psychology and psychoanalysis, in her analysis of shame and disgust. On the other hand, apart from a few references to Erving Goffman's psycho-sociology of stigma, she doesn't mobilize insights from anthropology and the social sciences, and doesn't attempt to compare the variations encountered by human emotions across cultures. She dismisses Mary Douglass' analysis of purity and pollution as irrelevant to her subject, and makes no reference to Rene Girard's theory of violence and the sacred.
Likewise, the conclusions she draws from her analysis of emotions and the law are mostly confined to the American context, and she makes no reference to other legal traditions. Her defense of same-sex marriage or her critique of some aspects of obscenity laws are bound to be provocative. Unfortunately, she tends to dismiss her opponents as falling prey to "moral panic" instead of seriously engaging their arguments.
Although I am sympathetic to Nussbaum's liberal agenda, I am not fully convinced by the theoretical foundations of her analysis, and I cannot follow her on some of her conclusions. But Hiding from Humanity nonetheless provides an interesting read. It should be appreciated by all who care about political liberalism and its core ideals of equal respect, reciprocity, and the inviolability of the person.
In addition, we use these two emotions to project our fears on marginalized groups or people who come to embody the dominant group's fear and loathing of its own human frailty. Disgust and shame are therefore two potent human emotions, but they are also problematic and should not be used as a reference in law formulation or legal punishment. On the contrary, law should protect citizens from insults to their dignity such as shaming and scapegoating.
Martha Nussbaum describes her book as "an essay about the psychological foundations of liberalism" and she makes great use of experimental data, including materials from child psychology and psychoanalysis, in her analysis of shame and disgust. On the other hand, apart from a few references to Erving Goffman's psycho-sociology of stigma, she doesn't mobilize insights from anthropology and the social sciences, and doesn't attempt to compare the variations encountered by human emotions across cultures. She dismisses Mary Douglass' analysis of purity and pollution as irrelevant to her subject, and makes no reference to Rene Girard's theory of violence and the sacred.
Likewise, the conclusions she draws from her analysis of emotions and the law are mostly confined to the American context, and she makes no reference to other legal traditions. Her defense of same-sex marriage or her critique of some aspects of obscenity laws are bound to be provocative. Unfortunately, she tends to dismiss her opponents as falling prey to "moral panic" instead of seriously engaging their arguments.
Although I am sympathetic to Nussbaum's liberal agenda, I am not fully convinced by the theoretical foundations of her analysis, and I cannot follow her on some of her conclusions. But Hiding from Humanity nonetheless provides an interesting read. It should be appreciated by all who care about political liberalism and its core ideals of equal respect, reciprocity, and the inviolability of the person.
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Excellent!
2004/6/20
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This is a remarkable book. As a gay man, I found myself saying "thank you" outloud as I finished each chapter. Nussbaum is more than just a wonderful American philosopher, she's a national treasure. If you haven't read her exchange with the, in my opnion, evil philosopher John Finnis, I highly recommend you do. One final point, although I am also a fan of Judith Butler (and I know that Nussbaum and Butler don't always see eye to eye), I see no reason why anyone has to "choose sides." Both of these women are amazing, and both are great to read. The book is very long, which is fine becuase thinkers like Nussbaum have so many interesting ideas and observations on the world we live in. One impression that I got from the book (and this has nothing to do with Nussbaum's own views) is how hard it is trying to come up with a non-theological (that is, non-mystical) argument against homosexuality. Personally, I don't think one can be made -- not a convincing one, at least. Nussbaum co-edited a debate-style book on sexual orientation and American religion, and all the arguments against homosexuality really fell flat and seemed so outdated and almost "hokey." So they really weren't that convincing either. Bottom line is: gays and lesbians have as much right to freedom and the benefits that come with it (marriage, ect.) that straight people do. After all, marriage is all about economic rights and perks whether we want to admit this to ourselves or not. It isn't fair that heterosexuals should have a monopoly on those rights, benefits, perks etc. And besides, who doesn't want gays and lesbians to be in loving, happy, monogamous relationships? And what better incentive is marriage?
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