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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.
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 ...
Shame and Necessity is the 57th book in the series based on the Sather Classical Lectures, the most prestigious lecture series in Classical scholar-ship. When Williams was invited to give the 1989 lectures, some Classical scholars were surprised at the Sather Committee's interdisciplinary gesture towards philosophy.
shame-responses are importantly different from guilt, and are more sustainedly characteristic of Greek culture than of our Christianised culture, but also that to see shame as more concerned with the individual's identity, looking to 'what I am', and
Shame and Necessity, Second Edition. Bernard Williams. University of California Press, Apr 28, 2023 - Philosophy - 280 pages. We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had...
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...
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.
