Shame and Necessity, Second Edition: Volume 57 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Bernard Williams, A. a. Long (Foreword by)Series:Sather Classical Lectures #57Publish date:2008-04-15Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520256439ISBN-10:520256433UPC:9780520256439Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Surveys, PoliticalBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.87 x 6.01 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SC859GGH6P
Shame and Necessity, Second Edition: Volume 57
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 to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams's original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, Williams claims that the differences are not to be traced...
Series: Sather Classical Lectures #57
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520256439ISBN-10:520256433UPC:9780520256439Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Surveys, PoliticalBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.87 x 6.01 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SC859GGH6P
Bernard Williams (1929-2003) was one of the most distinguished British philosophers of the twentieth century, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, and Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
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