Title: Shame and necessityAuthor: Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen
Published: University of California Press, 1993
Subjects: Philosophy |
Ethics |
Classics |
Classical Philosophy |
Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: 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 . . .
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