Dr Casey has written a strange and difficult book, but it is a book which repays the effort of encountering its strangeness and difficulty.

J.Enoch Powell, The Spectator

His style is succinct and vigorous ... The whole thing is a triumph of commonsense and lucidity.

Simon Raven, The Sunday Correspondent

This is a delightful book: learned, without being dense; lucid, but not heartless.

Angela Tilby, Church Times

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His style is succinct and vigorous ... his arguments are direct, unencumbered by jargon or verbiage. The whole thing is a triumph of commonsense and lucidity

Simon Raven, Sunday Correspondent

This is a delightful book: learned, without being dense; lucid, but not heartless.

Angela Tilby, Church Times

Pagan Virtue deserves some of the highest praise which can be accorded to a work of philosophy: it speaks more directly to the general reader than to the specialist philosopher.

Mark Archer, Financial Times

Casey argues that the classical virtues of courage, temperance, practical wisdom, and justice centrally define the good for Man, and that they are insufficiently acknowledged in modern moral philosophy. The associated values of success, pride, and worldliness are intrinsically opposed to values deriving from our Christian inheritance, and this leads to tensions and contradictions in our understanding of the moral life. The book draws on diverse sources: Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Hume, Jane Austen, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Sartre.
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In his essay, the author argues that the classical virtues of courage, temperance, practical wisdom and justice centrally define the good for mankind, and that they are insufficiently acknowledged in modern moral philosophy. His sources include Aristotle, Shakespeare, Hume and Sartre.
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Persons; Courage; Temperance; Practical Wisdom; Justice; Pagan Virtues?; Postscript: Homer, Shakespeare, and the Conflict of Values; Bibliography; Index
`Dr Casey has written a strange and difficult book, but it is a book which repays the effort of encountering its strangeness and difficulty. ' J.Enoch Powell, The Spectator `His style is succinct and vigorous ... The whole thing is a triumph of commonsense and lucidity.' Simon Raven, The Sunday Correspondent `This is a delightful book: learned, without being dense; lucid, but not heartless. ' Angela Tilby, Church Times `His style is succinct and vigorous ... his arguments are direct, unencumbered by jargon or verbiage. The whole thing is a triumph of commonsense and lucidity ' Simon Raven, Sunday Correspondent `This is a delightful book: learned, without being dense; lucid, but not heartless. ' Angela Tilby, Church Times `Pagan Virtue deserves some of the highest praise which can be accorded to a work of philosophy: it speaks more directly to the general reader than to the specialist philosopher. ' Mark Archer, Financial Times
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ISBN
9780198249580
Publisert
1990
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
426 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
254

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