Ordinary Vices (Paper)
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0674641760
ISBN-13
9780674641761
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Imprint
The Belknap Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 1st, 1985
Print length
278 Pages
Weight
476 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.30 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
PhilosophyPhilosophy
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Judith Shklar draws from a brilliant array of writers—Molière and Dickens on hypocrisy, Jane Austen on snobbery, Shakespeare and Montesquieu on misanthropy, Hawthorne and Nietzsche on cruelty, Conrad and Faulkner on betrayal—to reveal the nature and effects of the vices.
The seven deadly sins of Christianity represent the abysses of character, whereas Judith Shklar’s “ordinary vices”—cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy—are merely treacherous shoals, flawing our characters with mean-spiritedness and inhumanity. Shklar draws from a brilliant array of writers—Molière and Dickens on hypocrisy, Jane Austen on snobbery, Shakespeare and Montesquieu on misanthropy, Hawthorne and Nietzsche on cruelty, Conrad and Faulkner on betrayal—to reveal the nature and effects of the vices. She examines their destructive effects, the ambiguities of the moral problems they pose to the liberal ethos, and their implications for government and citizens: liberalism is a difficult and challenging doctrine that demands a tolerance of contradiction, complexity, and the risks of freedom.
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