About this title: This book is a study of ancient Greek views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made a profound contribution to these questions, ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780521277020ISBN:0521277027
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521277020ISBN:0521277027
Description: Good. 0521277027 Good copy in clean condition. Pages and cover are intact, with moderate wear. No dust jacket. Some markings, but text is clean. Binding is tight. Not ex-library. USPS tracking number provided for U.S. orders. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521794725ISBN:0521794722
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1986-03-31
ISBN-13:9780521277020ISBN:0521277027
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Description: Good. May have pencil notes, underlines and highlights., otherwise pages are very tight and clean. Normal shelf wear on the cover. Small creases on the corner. Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Edition: REV Edition Number is 2
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780521794725ISBN:0521794722
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9.02 by 1.5 inches. (590 pages) this book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. this book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. it examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. this book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. it examines the fundamental ethical problem that ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780521791267ISBN:052179126X
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Edition: REV Edition Number is 2
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780521791267ISBN:052179126X
Description: BRAND NEW. 9.02 by 1.46 inches. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing)(592 pages) this book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. this book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. it examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. this book is a study of ancient views about 'moral ... read more
Edition: Later printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge UP, Cambridge
Date Published: 1986
Description: Very Good. 8vo. Very good. Wraps. Minor edgewear. A bit thumbed. Spine sunned, a few faint reading creases. Else clean and sound throughout. 544pp. with notes, bibliography and index. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780521277020ISBN:0521277027
Description: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. 6" x 9" Book is near fine in deep red illustrated glossy soft covers with white lettering...text is tight and clean...appears unread...544 pages, crisp with sharp edges and corners...no annotations observed..."...intelecturally demanding and richly rewarding...required reading for anyone intrerested in Greek philosophy or literature. "--Bernard Knox in The New York Review of Books...a good find in this very nice condition. read more
"Oh for the days when I still adored and admired Martha Nussbaum. This wonderful book predates the "capabilities approach" for which she is now famous, and which I was recently forced to re-encounter in a context that thoroughly exposed its flaws. I was fuming about this recent Nussbaum run-in on the subway this morning, thinking of the very many blithe assumptions about the content of "the good" upon which the capabilities approach is based, and planning a scathing goodreads review (that'll teacher her!), and I thought of a passage from another book that I wanted to cite in my attack. "What book is that from?" I wracked my brain. Then I realized... it is from The Fragility of Goodness by... Martha Nussbaum. So instead of venting my annoyance at the capabilities approach (or, it seems, in addition to venting) I am posting my four-star approval of this earlier book, which is full of imagination and insight and good humor and beautiful writing. I just wish she had stayed a theater geek, or else become a full fledged activist. I guess too much John Rawls (god bless him) will turn any young bleeding heart into an armchair ethicist."
"Martha Nussbaum's genius for inductive thinking (starting with the specific and working toward the general) is apparent on virtually every page of this monumental work. It's so monumental I basically read it via the index, following her reasoning and skipping around as a page or passage caught my eye. Her chapter on Plato's *Symposium* is a most brilliant account of that dialogue. The conceptual links she welds together are so substantial that one can "visit" this book almost as a reference text--not only on Greek thought, but also on all of experience."
"I've only read Ch. 8 - "Saving Aristotle's appearances,"but the book is worth checking out for that chapter alone. She does an excellent job of describing and justifying Aristotle's "ordinary language" method of philosophizing and distinguishing him from Wittgenstein."
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