Martha C. Nussbaum (University of Chicago)

The Fragility of Goodness

Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1030g
• ISBN-13: 9780521791267
• ISBN-10: 052179126X
• Artikelnr.: 23833768

Inhaltsangabe

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.