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The fragility of goodness : luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy
- Title
- The fragility of goodness : luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy / Martha C. Nussbaum.
- Author
- Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
- Publication
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Details
- Description
- xliv, 544 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-525) and indexes.
- Contents
- ch. 1. Luck and ethics -- pt. 1. Tragedy : fragility and ambition -- ch. 2. Aeschylus and practical conflict -- ch. 3. Sophocles' Antigone : conflict, vision, and simplification -- pt. 2. Plato : goodness without fragility? -- ch. 4. The Protagoras : a science of practical reasoning -- Interlude 1 : Plato's anti-tragic theater -- ch. 5. The Republic : true value and the standpoint of perfection -- ch. 6. The speech of Alcibiades : a reading of the Symposium -- ch. 7. 'This story isn't true' : madness, reason, and recantation in the Phaedrus -- pt. 3. Aristotle : the fragility of the good human life -- ch. 8. Saving Aristotle's appearances -- ch. 9. Rational animals and the explanation of action -- ch. 10. Non-scientific deliberation -- ch. 11. The vulnerability of the good human life : activity and disaster -- ch. 12. The vulnerability of the good human life : relational goods -- Appendix to part 3 : human and divine -- Interlude 2 : luck and the tragic emotions -- Epilogue : tragedy -- ch. 13. The betrayal of convention : a reading of Euripides' Hecuba.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-12786
- ISBN
- 052179126X (hardback)
- 0521794722 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 00062128
- OCLC
- 44727859
- Author
- Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
- Title
- The fragility of goodness : luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy / Martha C. Nussbaum.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-525) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-12786