The fragility of goodness : luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy /

Title:

The fragility of goodness : luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy /

Author:

Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emerson College, Emmanuel College

Contents:

Luck and ethics -- Tragedy : fragility and ambition. Aeschylus and practical conflict ; Sophocles' Antigone : conflict, vision, and simplification -- Plato : goodness without fragility? The Protagoras : a science of practical reasoning ; Interlude I : Plato's anti-tragic theater ; The Republic : true value and the standpoint of perfection ; The speech of Alcibiades : a reading of the Symposium ; 'This story isn't true' : madness, reason, and recantation in the Phaedrus -- Aristotle : the fragility of the good human life. Saving Aristotle's appearances ; Rational animals and the explanation of action ; Non-scientific deliberation ; The vulnerability of the good human life : activity and disaster ; The vulnerability of the good human life : relational goods ; Appendix to pt. III : human and divine ; Interlude 2 : luck and the tragic emotions ; Epilogue : tragedy ; The betrayal of convention : a reading of Euripides' Hecuba.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
BJ192 .N87 1986 – Available

• Available Temporarily at Emerson Reserve
  On reserve for IN108 -1: Love and Eroticism (Institute: Kappel)
  On reserve for IN108 -2: Love and Eroticism (Institute: Mccabe)
  On reserve for IN108 Love and Eroticism (Institute: Fulton)

Emmanuel Main Stacks
BJ192 .N87 – Available