Ordinary Vices
The seven deadly sins of Christianity represent the abysses of character, whereas 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--Moliere 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 implica…
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- ISBN: 978-0-674-64176-1
- EAN: 9780674641761
- Produktnummer: 19606809
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1985
- Seitenangabe: 278 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.1 cm 440 g
- Abbildungen: None
- Gewicht: 440
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