Virtues and Vices

Elias Lindén

Virtues and Vices

269 kr

ISBN: 9789189882775

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-04-09

Språk: Svenska

What is a virtue and what is a vice? Is it possible to say that our actions are evil or good? Every age and culture have their own answers to these timeless questions. For example, in the Western Protestant tradition, the human body and its desire have been considered to be inherently evil, but that is not a position taken for granted in other cultures. Virtue and sin seem to represent a duality that is as old as humankind. This anthology explores how perceptions of virtues and vices have changed through history. The essays take ancient Greece and Rome as their starting point, move to the early Christian period from St Augustine to Dante, and then on to more recent philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche. The writers, Swedish as well as international scholars, also touch on everything from Confucian China and ancient India to self-help books, transhumanism and AI, as well as the existence or non-existence of human rights.

Författare

Elias Lindén

ISBN

9789189882775

Utgivningsdatum

2026-04-09

Grafisk design

Patric Leo

Språk

English

Övrigt

Illustrerad.

Huvudredaktörer

Elias Lindén

Huvudredaktör

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Anthony Pagden

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Fredrik Svenaeus

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Hans Ruin

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Jessica Frazier

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Malise Ruthven

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Peter Haldén

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Pär Cassel

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Sten Widmalm

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Thomas Idergard

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