| Description |
xvii, 544 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 512-525). |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Luck and ethics -- Tragedy : fragility and ambition. Aeschylus and practical conflict ; Sophocles' Antigone : conflict, vision, and simplification -- Plato : goodness without fragility? The Protagoras : a science of practical reasoning ; Interlude I : Plato's anti-tragic theater ; The Republic : true value and the standpoint of perfection ; The speech of Alcibiades : a reading of the Symposium ; 'This story isn't true' : madness, reason, and recantation in the Phaedrus -- Aristotle : the fragility of the good human life. Saving Aristotle's appearances ; Rational animals and the explanation of action ; Non-scientific deliberation ; The vulnerability of the good human life : activity and disaster ; The vulnerability of the good human life : relational goods ; Appendix to pt. III : human and divine ; Interlude 2 : luck and the tragic emotions ; Epilogue : tragedy ; The betrayal of convention : a reading of Euripides' Hecuba. |
| Subject |
Ethics -- Greece -- History.
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Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
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Fortune in literature.
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Ethics, Ancient, in literature.
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| Indexed Term |
Ethics Ancient Greek theories |
| ISBN |
0521257689 |
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9780521257688 |
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0521277027 paperback |
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9780521277020 paperback |
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