The Other Side of Virtue
Where Our Virtues Come From, What They Really Mean, and Where They Might Be Taking Us
- Publisher
- Collective Ink
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2008
- Category
- General, Reference
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781846941153
- Publish Date
- Apr 2008
- List Price
- $31.95
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Using ancient heroic epics and sagas like Beowulf, the Illiad and Odyssey, the Eddas, the Tain Bo Cuailnge, and literature inspired by them including the works of the Renaissance and Romanticism, Shakespeare, Tolkien, and J.K. Rowling, this book explains the world-view that gave birth to our virtues. In that world-view, life involves inevitable confrontations with inexplicable events like fortune, nature, other people, and death itself.
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