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.
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.
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.
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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