The fragility of goodness : luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Publisher description |
Table of 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.