Deadly Vices
By: Taylor, Gabrielle
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TextPublisher: Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: 163 p., tables, 20 cmISBN: 0199548684; 9780199548682Subject(s): Vices | Agent (Philosophy) | Philosophical anthropology | General ethics
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Subject: Gabrielle Taylor presents a philosophical investigation of the 'ordinary' vices traditionally seen as 'death to the soul': sloth, envy, avarice, pride, anger, lust, and gluttony. In the course of a richly detailed discussion of individual and interrelated vices she shows why these 'deadly sins' are correctly so named and grouped together.
1.Introduction: Vices and Virtue-Theory ; 2. 'Deadly Sins' ; 3. Envy and Covetousness ; 4. Self and Self-Consciousness ; 5. Pride and Anger ; 6. Interconnexions ; 7. 'Capital Vices' ; 8. Countervailing Virtues
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Bibliography: p. 153-156
1.Introduction: Vices and Virtue-Theory ; 2. 'Deadly Sins' ; 3. Envy and Covetousness ; 4. Self and Self-Consciousness ; 5. Pride and Anger ; 6. Interconnexions ; 7. 'Capital Vices' ; 8. Countervailing Virtues
Gabrielle Taylor presents a philosophical investigation of the 'ordinary' vices traditionally seen as 'death to the soul': sloth, envy, avarice, pride, anger, lust, and gluttony. In the course of a richly detailed discussion of individual and interrelated vices she shows why these 'deadly sins' are correctly so named and grouped together.
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