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That said, moving closer to your children certainly lets you establish a new relationship with them in a different context. Take Harold Nussbaum, 54, who wanted to know his daughter Fanita better. She was 7 when Harold and her mother divorced, and although he did his best to keep in touch, he felt he had missed out on big pieces of her life. So in 1998 he and his wife Gloria, 52, moved from their longtime home in Akron, Pa., to Beaverton, Ore. Now they live seven miles from Fanita, her husband and her three children. "We concentrate on simple...
...Nussbaum's philosophy has. Acting on her conviction that philosophers should be "lawyers for humanity" (as her beloved Seneca put it), she has thrown herself repeatedly into the public arena--citing Plato on the witness stand in a Colorado courtroom, for example, to argue that there were no ancient precedents for discriminating against homosexuals. That performance sparked an uproar in academic circles and helped make her America's most prominent female philosopher. She has been interviewed by Bill Moyers and photographed by Annie Leibowitz, and she regularly entertains readers of the New Republic and the New York Review of Books...
...Nussbaum believes that one of the best ways she can affect public life is through teaching (first at Harvard and Brown, now at the University of Chicago), but she also puts her money where her mouth and her mind are. She spent six years working as an adviser to the U.N.'s World Institute for Development Economics Research, trying to find a better way to measure progress than GNP. (Her alternative: a yardstick based on universal rights such as life, health, holding property and participating in politics.) She has also made frequent trips to India, where she advised programs that...
...Nussbaum is often described as a contentious centrist. She takes on conservatives and cultural radicals--and takes plenty of heat as a result. She has been savagely criticized for her zeal, her sense of mission and her moral certitude...
...Nussbaum, in turn, is impatient with those who see philosophizing as an escape from reality. She has staked out important but uncomfortable territory for a 21st century academic. Make what you think--and feel--count, she urges; the examined life has global dimensions...