Ordinary Vices by Judith N Shklar

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Ordinary Vices by Judith N Shklar

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Ordinary Vices by Judith N Shklar

The seven deadly sins of Christianity represent the abysses of character, whereas Shklar's ordinary vices--cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy--are merely treacherous shoals, flawing our characters with mean-spiritedness and inhumanity.

Shklar draws from a brilliant array of writers--Moliere and Dickens on hypocrisy, Jane Austen on snobbery, Shakespeare and Montesquieu on misanthropy, Hawthorne and Nietzsche on cruelty, Conrad and Faulkner on betrayal--to reveal the nature and effects of the vices. She examines their destructive effects, the ambiguities of the moral problems they pose to the liberal ethos, and their implications for government and citizens: liberalism is a difficult and challenging doctrine that demands a tolerance of contradiction, complexity, and the risks of freedom.

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ISBN 13 9780674641754
ISBN 10 0674641752
Title Ordinary Vices
Author Judith N Shklar
Condition Unavailable
Publisher Harvard University Press
Year published 1984-09-10
Number of pages 280
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