Shame and necessity

Shame and necessity

by Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen

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Often, we tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these. Williams's book questions this picture of history and posits that we are not very different from the Greeks in our conceptions of ethical life.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Shame and necessity / Bernard Williams ; with a new foreword by A.A. Long.

Summary

Often, we tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these. Williams's book questions this picture of history and posits that we are not very different from the Greeks in our conceptions of ethical life.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2008.
  • Edition:[New ed.]

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Notes

Previous edition: 1993.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xxi, 254 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780520256439, 0520256433
  • oclc:ocn828457973
  • LC Classification:PA3095
  • Dewey Decimal:881.0109384

Subjects

Amphiktyonie Antike Criticism, interpretation, etc Ethics in literature Ethik Greek poetry Greek poetry -- History and criticism Honte dans la littérature Morale dans la littérature Moralisches Handeln Nécessité (Philosophie) dans la littéra… Necessity (Philosophy) in literature Philosophie ancienne dans la littérature Philosophy, Ancient, in literature Poésie grecque -- Histoire et critique Shame in literature Tugendethik

Writers

Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen

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