Ordinary Vices - Brossura

Shklar, Judith N.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0674641760 ISBN 13: 9780674641761

Casa editrice: Belknap Pr, 1985

Riassunto

The seven deadly sins of Christianity represent the abysses of character, whereas Judith Shklar’s “ordinary vices”—cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy—are merely treacherous shoals, flawing our characters with mean-spiritedness and inhumanity.

Shklar draws from a brilliant array of writers—Molière and Dickens on hypocrisy, Jane Austen on snobbery, Shakespeare and Montesquieu on misanthropy, Hawthorne and Nietzsche on cruelty, Conrad and Faulkner on betrayal—to reveal the nature and effects of the vices. She examines their destructive effects, the ambiguities of the moral problems they pose to the liberal ethos, and their implications for government and citizens: liberalism is a difficult and challenging doctrine that demands a tolerance of contradiction, complexity, and the risks of freedom.

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L'autore:

Judith Shklar was, before her death, John Cowles Professor of Government, Harvard University, and a MacArthur Fellow.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Belknap Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0674641760
• ISBN 13: 9780674641761
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 278