0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500

Buy Now

The Impossibility of Perfection - Aristotle, Feminism, and the Complexities of Ethics (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,899
Discovery Miles 18 990
The Impossibility of Perfection - Aristotle, Feminism, and the Complexities of Ethics (Hardcover): Michael Slote

The Impossibility of Perfection - Aristotle, Feminism, and the Complexities of Ethics (Hardcover)

Michael Slote

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R1,899 Discovery Miles 18 990 | Repayment Terms: R178 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days

Most people think that the difficulty of balancing career and personal/family relationships is the fault of present-day society or is due to their own inadequacies. But in this major new book, eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that the difficulty runs much deeper, that it is due to the essential nature of the divergent goods involved in this kind of choice. He shows more generally that perfect human happiness and perfect virtue are impossible in principle, a view originally enunciated by Isaiah Berlin, but much more thoroughly and synoptically defended here than ever before.
Ancient Greek and modern-day Enlightenment thought typically assumed that perfection was possible, and this is also true of Romanticism and of most recent ethical theory. But if, as Slote maintains, imperfection is inevitable, then our inherited categories of virtue and personal good are far too limited and unqualified to allow us to understand and cope with the richer and more complex life that characterizes today's world. And The Impossibility of Perfection argues in particular that we need some new notions, new distinctions, and even new philosophical methods in order to distill some of the ethical insights of recent feminist thought and arrive at a fuller and more realistic picture of ethical phenomena.

General

Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2011
First published: August 2011
Authors: Michael Slote (Professor of Philosophy)
Dimensions: 210 x 136 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-979082-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Promotions
LSN: 0-19-979082-5
Barcode: 9780199790821

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Courage Is Calling - Fortune Favours The…
Ryan Holiday Hardcover R437 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140
Courage Is Calling - Fortune Favours The…
Ryan Holiday Paperback R350 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120
Sosipatra of Pergamum - Philosopher and…
Heidi Marx Hardcover R2,579 Discovery Miles 25 790
Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice
Jennifer Wright Knust, Zsuzsanna Varhelyi Hardcover R3,259 Discovery Miles 32 590
Plato's Rivalry with Medicine - A…
Susan B. Levin Hardcover R2,593 Discovery Miles 25 930
Belief and Truth - A Skeptic Reading of…
Katja Maria Vogt Hardcover R2,346 Discovery Miles 23 460
The Oxford Handbook of Plato
Gail Fine Hardcover R5,772 Discovery Miles 57 720
Posterior Analytics
Aristotle Hardcover R5,336 Discovery Miles 53 360
Cicero's Pro L. Murena Oratio
Elaine Fantham Hardcover R3,981 Discovery Miles 39 810
Plato - Political Philosophy
Malcolm Schofield Hardcover R4,287 Discovery Miles 42 870
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy…
Julia Annas Hardcover R4,268 Discovery Miles 42 680
Classical Traditions in Science Fiction
Brett M Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens Hardcover R3,986 Discovery Miles 39 860

See more

Partners