Deadly Vices

ISBN-13: 9780198235804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 176 str.

Gabriele Taylor

Opis

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. In the course of a richly detailed discussion of individual and interrelated vices, which complements recent work by moral philosophers on virtue, she shows why these "deadly sins" are correctly so named and grouped together.

Recenzje

Taylor's book is an excellent, insightful, psychologically informed discussion of a class of vices.

O autorze

Gabriele Taylor is an Emeritus Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where she was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy. She has contributed to several volumes in moral philosophy, including Philosophy, Psychology and Psychiatry (CUP, 1994) and How Should One Live? (Clarendon Press, 1996) and is the author of Pride, Shame, and Guilt: Emotions of Self-Assessment (Clarendon Press, 1985).