Shame and Necessity, Second Edition: Volume 57

by Bernard Williams

Book Overview

We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams's original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, Williams claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in these basic conceptions of ethical life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520256433
• ISBN13: 9780520256439
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"