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Historically speaking, our vices, like our virtues, have come in two basic forms: intellectual and moral. One of the main purposes of this book is to analyse a set of specifically political vices that have not been given sufficient attention within political theory but that none…
This title examines the outrage against - and attempts to end - the four vices associated with the artistocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. All four it was commonly believed, owed their origin to pride.
Examines the outrage against, and attempts to end, the four vices associated with the aristocracy in 18th-century England, exploring treatment by the press and showing how public attacks on aristocratic vices promoted a sense of moral superiority among the emerging middle class.
This title examines the outrage against -- and attempts to end -- the four vices associated with the artistocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. All four it was commonly believed, owed their origin to pride.
Virtues and Their Vices
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This is a comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final…
Virtues and their vices
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Type: Book
This is a comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final…
Virtues and Their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. Each of the essays ... not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and de…
Virtues and their vices
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Type: Book
Virtues and their vices
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Type: Book
This is a comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final…
Virtues and their vices
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Type: Book
Virtues and Their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. Each of the essays ... not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and de…
