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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.
Book Synopsis Glittering Vices by : Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
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.
Book Synopsis Character, Virtue Theories, and the Vices by : Christine McKinnon
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 276 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.
Book Synopsis Ordinary Vices by : Judith N. Shklar
Download or read book Ordinary Vices written by Judith N. Shklar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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.
Download or read book The Vices written by Junius (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deadly Vices written by Gabriele Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriele Taylor presents a philosophical investigation of the 'ordinary' vices traditionally seen as 'death to the soul': sloth, envy, avarice, pride, anger, lust, and gluttony. This complements recent work by moral philosophers on virtue, and opens up the neglected topic of the vices for further study. Whilst in a mild form the vices may be ordinary and common failings, Deadly Vices makes the case that for those wholly in their grip they are fatally destructive, preventingthe flourishing of the self and of a worthwhile life. An agent therefore has a powerful reason to avoid such states and dispositions and rather to cultivate those virtues that counteract a deadly vice.In dealing with individual vices, their impact on the self, and their interrelation, Deadly Vices offers a unified account of the vices that not only encompasses the healing virtues but also engages with issues in the philosophy of mind as well as in moral philosophy, and shows the connection between them. Literary examples are used to highlight central features of individual vices and set them in context.
Book Synopsis The Vices of Integrity by : Jonathan Haslam
Download or read book The Vices of Integrity written by Jonathan Haslam and published by Verso. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Hallet Carr is renowned as the historian of Soviet Russia, biographer of The Romantic Exiles, founder of the 'realist' approach to the study of International Relations and author of the classic Trevelyan lecture series, What is History? This sparkling biography reveals how intimately the historian's grasp of statecraft is related to Carr's own formative experiences at the center of political events. Seconded from Cambridge to the Foreign Office during World War I to administer the Allied blockade of the new Soviet Republic and attending the post-war Paris peace talks on behalf of the British, Carr witnessed at first hand the unfolding drama of the revolution which was to become the centerpiece of his life's work. At the Foreign Office, and as Times leader writer during World War II, he was an influential opinion maker whose open-minded attitude to the Soviet Union deprived him of academic posts for the next decade. Jonathan Haslam paints a compelling psychological portrait of a man torn between a vicarious identification with the romance of revolution and the ruthless realism of his own intellectual formation. In his fascinating account of the creation of Carr's vast 14 volume History of Soviet Russia, Haslam reveals a major historian at his craft.
Book Synopsis The Vices of the Tavern Dissected: Or, Drunkenness Laid Open: a Poem ... by : John Mitchie
Download or read book The Vices of the Tavern Dissected: Or, Drunkenness Laid Open: a Poem ... written by John Mitchie and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Reformer; Exposing the Vices of the Age, in Several Characters. [By Edward Ward.] by :
Download or read book The Reformer; Exposing the Vices of the Age, in Several Characters. [By Edward Ward.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1700 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Poetical Reflextions, Moral, Comical, Satyrical,&c. On the Vices and Follies of the Age ... Part the Twelfth. To be Continu'd Occasionally. By Several Good Hands .. by : Reflections
Download or read book Poetical Reflextions, Moral, Comical, Satyrical,&c. On the Vices and Follies of the Age ... Part the Twelfth. To be Continu'd Occasionally. By Several Good Hands .. written by Reflections and published by . This book was released on 1709 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Inquisition Unmasked; Or, a Dissertation on the Vices of that Tribunal, and the Necessity of Its Suppression. Translated from ... La Inquisicion Sin Máscara [by A. Puigblanch]; to which Other Authentic Documents are Added ... By William Walton. [With a Prospectus.] Vol. 1. No. 1 by :
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Book Synopsis The Vices of Integrity by : Jonathan Haslam
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.
Book Synopsis The Good Vices by : Dr. Harry Ofgang
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.
Book Synopsis Character, Virtue Theories, and the Vices by : Christine McKinnon
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.
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...
Book Synopsis Virtues and Their Vices by : Kevin Timpe
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.
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