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The Vices

Author : Lawrence Douglas
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590514165
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Vices written by Lawrence Douglas and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Vice, forty-one, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2.Troubled by his friend’s possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas’ new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vice’s life history. Douglas, moving backward through time, tells a mordantly humorous story of fascination turned obsession, as his narrator peels back the layers of the Vice family’s rich and bizarre history. At the heart of the family are Francizka, Oliver’s handsome, overbearing, vaguely anti-Semitic Hungarian mother, and his fraternal twin brother, Bartholomew, a gigantic and troubled young man with a morbid interest in Europe’s great tyrants. As the narrator finds himself drawn into a battle over the family’s money and art, he comes to sense that someone—or perhaps the entire family—is hiding an unsavory past. Pursuing the truth from New York to London, from Budapest to Portugal, he remains oblivious to the irony of the search: that in his need to understand Vice’s life, he is really grappling with ambivalence about his own.

Glittering Vices

Author : Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1493422162
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Glittering Vices written by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on centuries of wisdom from the Christian ethical tradition, this book takes readers on a journey of self-examination, exploring why our hearts are captivated by glittery but false substitutes for true human goodness and happiness. The first edition sold 35,000 copies and was a C. S. Lewis Book Prize award winner. Now updated and revised throughout, the second edition includes a new chapter on grace and growth through the spiritual disciplines. Questions for discussion and study are included at the end of each chapter.

Character, Virtue Theories, and the Vices

Author : Christine McKinnon
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770484744
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Character, Virtue Theories, and the Vices written by Christine McKinnon and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the question posed by virtue theories, namely, “what kind of person should I be?” provides a more promising approach to moral questions than do either deontological or consequentialist moral theories where the concern is with what actions are morally required or permissible. It does so both by arguing that there are firmer theoretical foundations for virtue theories, and by persuasively suggesting the superiority of virtue theories over deontological and consquentialist theories on the question of explaining morally bad behavior. Virtue theories can give a richer account by appealing to the kinds of dispositions that make certain bad choices appear attractive. This richer account also exposes a further advantage of virtue theories: they provide the best kinds of motivations for agents to become better persons.

The Book of Vices

Author : Various
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781573225274
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Vices written by Various and published by . This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales on the seven deadly sins--pride, avarice, lust, gluttony, sloth, envy, anger--with lust the favorite. The authors range from Xenophon to Erica Jong. With illustrations.

The Good Vices

Author : Dr. Harry Ofgang
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143131966
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Good Vices written by Dr. Harry Ofgang and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being healthy is easier, less expensive, and a whole lot more enjoyable than you think. Much of the health advice we receive today tells us that in order to be healthy, we must consume a Spartan diet, exercise with the intensity of an Olympic athlete, and take a drug for every ailment. We constantly worry about the foods we should or shouldn't be eating and the medical tests we have neglected to take. And all that worry costs us dearly--financially, emotionally, and physically. In The Good Vices, prominent naturopathic physician Dr. Harry Ofgang and health journalist Erik Ofgang tear down decades of myth and prejudice to reveal how some of our guilty pleasures are not only okay but actually good for our health. For example: Like wine, moderate beer and spirit consumption raises our bodies' level of good cholesterol, which protects against heart disease. Egg yolks are an excellent source of important fat-soluble vitamins. Research suggests that moderate exercisers can be at least as healthy as, and sometimes even healthier than, those who exercise intensively. Forget what you thought you knew about what's healthy, and enjoy some good vices instead.

The Vices of Integrity

Author : Jonathan Haslam
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859842898
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book The Vices of Integrity written by Jonathan Haslam and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Edward Hallet Carr’s definitive biography Jonathan Haslam paints a compelling portrait of a man torn between a vicarious identification with the romance of revolution and the ruthless realism of his own intellectual formation.

Small Vices

Author : Robert B Parker
Publisher : Bedford Square Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1843441616
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Small Vices written by Robert B Parker and published by Bedford Square Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellis Alves is a bad kid from the 'hood with a long record, but did he really murder Melissa Henderson, a white student from ritzy Pemberton College? Alves's former lawyers think he was framed, and they hire Spenser to uncover the truth. From Boston's back streets to Manhattan's elite, Spenser and Hawk search for suspects, including Melissa's rich kid tennis-star boyfriend. But when a man with a .22 puts Spenser in a coma, the hope for justice might just die along with the detective...

The Vice of Luxury

Author : David Cloutier
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626162573
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Vice of Luxury written by David Cloutier and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luxury. The word alone conjures up visions of attractive, desirable lifestyle choices, yet luxury also faces criticism as a moral vice harmful to both the self and society. Engaging ideas from business, marketing, and economics, The Vice of Luxury takes on the challenging task of naming how much is too much in today's consumer-oriented society. David Cloutier’s critique goes to the heart of a fundamental contradiction. Though overconsumption and materialism make us uneasy, they also seem inevitable in advanced economies. Current studies of economic ethics focus on the structural problems of poverty, of international trade, of workers' rights—but rarely, if ever, do such studies speak directly to the excesses of the wealthy, including the middle classes of advanced economies. Cloutier proposes a new approach to economic ethics that focuses attention on our everyday economic choices. He shows why luxury is a problem, explains how to identify what counts as the vice of luxury today, and develops an ethic of consumption that is grounded in Christian moral convictions.

The Virtues of Our Vices

Author : Emrys Westacott
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691162212
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Virtues of Our Vices written by Emrys Westacott and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hidden value of some of our everyday vices Are there times when it's right to be rude? Can we distinguish between good and bad gossip? Am I a snob if I think that NPR listeners are likely to be better informed than devotees of Fox News? Does sick humor do anyone any good? Can I think your beliefs are absurd but still respect you? In The Virtues of Our Vices, philosopher Emrys Westacott takes a fresh look at important everyday ethical questions—and comes up with surprising answers. He makes a compelling argument that some of our most common vices—rudeness, gossip, snobbery, tasteless humor, and disrespect for others' beliefs—often have hidden virtues or serve unappreciated but valuable purposes. For instance, there are times when rudeness may be necessary to help someone with a problem or to convey an important message. Gossip can foster intimacy between friends and curb abuses of power. And dubious humor can alleviate existential anxieties. Engaging, funny, and philosophically sophisticated, The Virtues of Our Vices challenges us to rethink conventional wisdom when it comes to everyday moral behavior.

The Vices of Learning

Author : Sari Kivisto
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004276459
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Vices of Learning written by Sari Kivisto and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Vices of Learning: Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities, Sari Kivistö examines scholarly vices in the late Baroque and early Enlightenment periods. Moral criticism of the learned was a favourite theme of Latin dissertations, treatises and satires written in Germany ca. 1670–1730. Works on scholarly pride, logomachy, curiosity and other vices kept the presses running at German Protestant universities as well as farther north. Kivistö shows how scholars constructed fame and how the process involved various means of producing celebrity. The book industry, plagiarism and impressive titles were all labelled dishonest means of advancing a career. In The Vices of Learning Kivistö argues that scholarly ethics was an essential part of the early modern intellectual framework.

Virtues and Their Vices

Author : Kevin Timpe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019964554X
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Virtues and Their Vices written by Kevin Timpe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final section discusses the role of virtue theory in a number of disciplines.

Inherent Vice

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101594675
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Inherent Vice written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The funniest book Pynchon has written." — Rolling Stone "Entertainment of a high order." - Time Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. Undeniably one of the most influential writers at work today, Pynchon has penned another unforgettable book.

The Education of Women and The Vices of Men

Author :
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815651511
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Education of Women and The Vices of Men written by and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the nineteenth century, modern ideas of democracy and equality were slowly beginning to take hold in Iran. Exposed to European ideas about law, equality, and education, upper- and middle-class men and women increasingly questioned traditional ideas about the role of women and their place in society. In apparent response to this emerging independence of women, an anonymous author penned The Education of Women, a small booklet published in 1889. This guide, aimed at husbands as much as at wives, instructed women on how to behave toward their husbands, counseling them on proper dress, intimacy, and subservience. One woman, Bibi Khanom Astarabadi, took up the author’s challenge and wrote a refutation of the guide’s arguments. An outspoken mother of seven, Astarabadi established the first school for girls in Tehran and often advocated for the rights of women. In The Vices of Men, she details the flaws of men, offering a scathing diatribe on the nature of men’s behavior toward women. Astarabadi mixes the traditional florid style of the time with street Persian, slang words, and bawdy language. This new edition, the first to be translated into English, faithfully preserves the style and irreverent tone of the essays. The two texts, together with an introduction and afterword situating both within the customs, language, and social life of Iran, offer a rare candid dialogue between men and women in late nineteenth-century Persia.

The Catastrophist

Author : Lawrence Douglas
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156031776
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book The Catastrophist written by Lawrence Douglas and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morbidly pessimistic about the future in spite of his successful marriage and career, art historian Daniel Wellington suffers an existential crisis when he learns he is going to be a father, a breakdown after which he engages in a series of haphazard, self-sabotaging behaviors. Reprint.

Vice Patrol

Author : Anna Lvovsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022676978X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Vice Patrol written by Anna Lvovsky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life chronicles how local police and criminal justice systems intruded on gay individuals, criminalizing, profiling, surveilling, and prosecuting them from the 1930's through the 1960's. Anna Lvovsky details the progression of enforcement strategies through the targeting of gay-friendly bars by liquor boards, enticement of sexual overtures by plainclothes police decoys, and surveilling of public bathrooms via peepholes and two-way mirrors to catch someone "in the act." Lvovsky shows how the use of tactics indistinguishable from entrapment to criminalize homosexual men in public and private spaces produced charges brought forward and disputed by attorneys and evidence that had to stand before judges, who at times intervened against punitive policies. In Vice Patrol the author demonstrates how developments in the psychological, medical, and sociological handling of homosexuality filtered into police stations, courthouses, and the wider culture"--

The Three Vices

Author : C. H. Admirand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989709965
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Three Vices written by C. H. Admirand and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.H. Admirand sweeps her readers back into the past to Regency England with book one in her Regency-Era Historical Trilogy: The Three Vices. This re-release has the previously deleted prologue, chapters, and scenes added back in for an enhanced read. For readers who have already read Patience, I have toned down the love scenes to appeal to a broader range of readers. Never fear, the romance is still the most important part of Lady Patience and Viscount Rexley's story. Here's the trilogy overview: Three cousins: Lady Patience Wainwright, Lady Charity Fenwick, and Lady Prudence Thompson, (daughters of three sisters) each have a vice that has their respective parents despairing that they may never find suitable matches for the highly spirited and willful daughters. Patience, Charity, and Prudence...Virtuous qualities a young lady seeking a husband would surely wish to possess. Unless, of course, a well-meaning parent chose to name her daughter Patience, with an eye to the future, hoping her precious child would seek to emulate the meaning of her name. Never imagining her beloved daughter would grow up preferring the break-neck pace of racing her horse across the meadow to taking tea with callers, or that she would prefer angling for trout and firing a pistol to plying fabric with a needle. And, Lord help us all, that she would grow to stand just four inches shy of six feet tall Patience is impetuous, impulsive, and impossible. Ah, but her parents have a plan to secure a marriage, and their daughter's future. They intend to find a gentleman of noble birth-with deep pockets-who has never met their daughter. Surely somewhere in all of England there is a gentleman who will embrace their daughter, thorns and all. All he need do is overlook her height, and her talent with rod, reel, and pistol. The virtue has become the vice ...

Vices of the Mind

Author : Quassim Cassam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198826907
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Vices of the Mind written by Quassim Cassam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quassim Cassam introduces the idea of epistemic vices, character traits that get in the way of knowledge, such as closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. Using examples from politics to illustrate the vices at work, he considers whether we are responsible for such failings, and what we can do about them.