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jimlynchIf Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »
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The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

by Martha C. Nussbaum

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Publisher Comments:

This book is a study of ancient views about "moral luck." It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made a profound contribution to these questions, yet neither the problems nor the Greek views of them have received the attention they deserve. This updated edition contains a new preface.

Review:

"[Nussbaum's] book still has much to offer." BMCR"This is an immensely rich and stimulating book. This is partly because the author combines to a rare degree qualities not often found together: a scholar's understanding of the text with rigour of argument, and these together with an imaginative grasp of moral questions. But it is also because she has chosen to write a very ambitious book, to grapple with some fundamental, perennial issues....It should change the tenor of debate in more than one field." Charles Taylor, Canadian Journal of Philosophy"Over fifteen years since its first appearance, this work is still of interest to literary critics, philosophers and intellectual historians alike." Patrick O'Sullivan, University of Cantebury, Christchurch, NZ

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A study of ancient views about "moral luck".

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This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives.

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This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'.

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This book is a study of ancient views about ???moral luck???.
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Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Luck and ethics; Part I. Tragedy: Fragility and Ambition: 2. Aeschylus and practical conflict; 3. Sophocles' Antigone: conflict, vision, and simplification; Part II. Plato: Goodness without Fragility: 4. The Protagoras: a science of practical reasoning; Interlude 1. Plato's anti-tragic theater; 5. The Republic: true value and the standpoint of perfection; 6. The speech of Alcibiades: a reading of the Symposium; 7. 'This story isn't true': madness, reason, and recantation in the Phaedrus; Part III. Aristotle: The Fragility of the Good Human Life: Introduction; 8. Saving Aristotle's appearances; 9. Rational animals and the explanation of action; 10. Non-scientific deliberation; 11. The vulnerability of the Good Human Life: activity and disaster; 12. The vulnerability of the Good Human Life: relational goods; Appendix to Part III; Interlude 2. Luck and the tragic emotions; Epilogue: Tragedy; 13. The betrayal of convention: a reading of Euripedes' Hecuba.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780521794725
Subtitle:
Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
Author:
Nussbaum, Martha C.
Author:
Nussbaum, Martha Craven
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Location:
Cambridge, U.K.
Subject:
General
Subject:
History
Subject:
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Subject:
Ethics
Subject:
Ancient
Subject:
History, Criticism, Surveys
Subject:
Greek drama
Subject:
Ethics, greek
Subject:
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
Subject:
Fortune in literature.
Subject:
Ethics -- Greece -- History.
Subject:
Ethics, Ancient, in literature.
Subject:
History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical
Subject:
History & Surveys - General
Edition Number:
2
Edition Description:
Updated
Series Volume:
1509
Publication Date:
January 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Pages:
590
Dimensions:
8.90x5.91x1.41 in. 1.74 lbs.
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