Fragility of Goodness - Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

Klappentext This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Nussbaum Martha C., Martha C. Nussbaum, Martha C. (University of Chicago) Nussbaum
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2001
• EAN: 9780521791267
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79126-7
• No. of pages: 592
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy