How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust
The Marginalian • 2/20/2026 – 2/21/2026
Summary
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum discusses the complexities of love in her work, highlighting the alternations between love and its denial, as well as suffering and denial of suffering. She posits that these dynamics are the most essential and ubiquitous structural features of the human heart.
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