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8 de sept. de 2022 · English. xii, 254 pages ; 24 cm. The author is a philosopher, but much of his book is directed to writers such as Homer and the tragedians, whom he discusses as poets and not just materials for philosophy. At the center of his study is the question of how we can understand Greek tragedy at all, when its world is so far from ours.
Bernard Williams's original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, Williams claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in these basic conceptions of ethical life.
1 de feb. de 2006 · While in the Oxford chair he produced Shame and Necessity (1993), a major study of Greek ethics which aims to distinguish what we think about ethics “from what we think that we think” (1993: 91): Williams’ thesis is that our deepest convictions are often more like classical Greek ethical thought, and less like the post ...
20 de abr. de 1993 · Bernard Williams , Shame and necessity . Sather classical lectures ; v. 57. Oxford: University of California Press, 1993. xii, 254 pages ; 24 cm.. ISBN 9780520080461 . $25.00. Review by. Stephen Salkever, Bryn Mawr College. This book is based on Williams’ Sather Lectures delivered at U.C. Berkeley in the spring of 1989.
Williams believes that conceptualising shame and guilt according to his models helps us to see the central importance of character to morality. The sense, then, in which these are models for the emotions is that in which they provide patterns for us to emulate.
Williams explains how it is that when the ancients speak, they do not merely tell us about themselves, but about ourselves. Shame and Necessity gives a new account of our relations to the...
24 de mar. de 1993 · Bernard Williams. 4.17. 214 ratings21 reviews. We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness.
