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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780521277020, titled "The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy" | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $25.99 | also contains The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy | About this edition: This book is a study of ancient Greek views about 'moral luck'.
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9780521257688, titled "The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy" | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $90.00 | also contains The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
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9780195380781 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 2011, cover price $99.00
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9780195380798 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 2011, cover price $24.95
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9781403974426, titled "Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature: Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate and Malory" | Palgrave Macmillan, March 15, 2009, cover price $115.00
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9780773454484 | Edwin Mellen Pr, July 30, 2007, cover price $109.95
Product Description: This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one...read more
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9780821415146 | Ohio Univ Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age.
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, yet neither the problems nor the Greek views of them have received the attention they deserve. This book thus recovers a central dimension of Greek thought and addresses major issues in contemporary ethical theory. One of its most original aspects is its interelated treatment of both literary and philosophical texts. In a close analysis of three tragedies, and works by Plato and Aristotle, the author argues that we cannot understand the thought of the philosophers without also investigating its relation to the literary works; and that the literary works, in virtue of their form as well as their content, make a distinctive contribution to ethical thought. (view table of contents)
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9780521791267 | Revised edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2001), cover price $170.00
9780521257688 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $90.00 | also contains Moon Wisdom: Map Your Life Using the Moon's Signs and Cylces
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9780521794725 | Updated edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2001), cover price $49.99
9780521277020 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $25.99 | also contains Ezra Pound, Poet: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 | About this edition: This book is a study of ancient Greek views about 'moral luck'.
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9780824043766 | Taylor & Francis, May 1, 1990, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Book by Susan Scheinberg Kristol
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