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Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures)
Bernard Williams
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| #915825 in Books | imusti | 2008-04-15 | 2008-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.80 x.70 x5.90l,.84 | File type: PDF | 280 pages | University of California Press||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A SCHOLARLY BOOK FOR MORE THAN A NARROW AUDIENCE|By David Keymer|The early Greek philosopher Heraclitus once wrote: "A man's character is his fate." (Ethos anthropoi daimon) This quotation could be the epigraph for this book of essays by the distinguished philosopher Bernard Williams, delivered as the fifty-seventh Sather Classical Lectures at the University of California, Berk|From Library Journal|This book is about ancient Greek ethical ideas, primarily of Homer and the tragedians. Denying that modern ethical understanding is merely a progressive version of Greek thought, Williams contends that the ancients' ideas can illuminate our
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 to a shift in these basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like...
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