PHIL 1107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cognitive Dissonance, Martha Nussbaum, False Consciousness
6 Sep 2016
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Martha nussbaum on adaptive preferences: to those with low self-regard, neglect does not seem unjust, and so it does not cause them pain. That is why women feel ashamed to be upset about the injustice they encounter. Malnourished women did not consider their conditions unhealthful or unsanitary; did not consider themselves to be malnourished. 3 indirect psychological harms: shame/low self-esteem (covered by bartky, false consciousness (bartky"s stereotypes") One can be insidiously coerced into believing the stereotypes. Harms the oppressed individual by maintaining oppressive status quo. Keeping things as they are without challenging them: deformed desires. The things that a person wants (and acknowledge that they want) end up not being in their best interest and are actually oppressive to them. Fox wants grapes that are out of his reach, he convinces himself that they"re sour anyway so he wouldn"t want them anyway. Avery welch philosophy/gender week 10 3/28/16-4/1/16. Is a way to cope with limitation of options.
