Moral Conscience through the Ages : Fifth Century BCE to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780199685547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 288 str.

Richard Sorabji

Opis

Richard Sorabji presents a unique exploration of the development of moral conscience over 2500 years, from the playwrights of classical Greece to the present. His virtuoso study of the development of pagan, Christian, and secular conceptions of conscience culminates in a consideration of the nature, value, and role of conscience today.

Recenzje

Sorabji provides a comprehensive history of the concept of conscience

O autorze

Sir Richard Sorabji is Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford University and fellow and emeritus professor at Kings College, London. He is the editor of fifteen books, and founder and general editor of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, in which more than a hundred volumes have been published.