Shame & Necessity (Paper): 57 (Sather Classical Lectures) - Softcover

Williams, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520088301 ISBN 13: 9780520088306

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Synopsis

Although humanity has changed since the times of the ancient Greeks, this study claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important differences from them, such as our rejection of slavery. This treatise is directed towards writers such as Homer and the tragedians. At the centre of the study is the question of how we can understand Greek tragedy at all, when its world is so far from ours.

About this title

Review:

"Clearly written, well argued, and carefully documented."--"Library Journal

About the Author:

Bernard Williams (1929-2003) was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, and Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous books include Descartes: The Project of Pure Inquiry (1979), Moral Luck (1981), and Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0520088301
• ISBN 13: 9780520088306
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266