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Ordinary Vices

  • Paperback
  • 278 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • 15.4 x 23.3 x 2.2 cm

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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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  • Author

    Judith N. Shklar

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Harvard University Press

  • Published

    July 1985

  • Weight

    441g

  • Page Count

    278

  • Dimensions

    15.4 x 23.3 x 2.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780674641761

  • ISBN-10

    0674641760

  • Eden Code

    4577842

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