Ordinary Vices

Ordinary Vices
ISBN-10
0674641752
ISBN-13
9780674641754
Category
Philosophy
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
1984
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Judith N. Shklar

Description

A look at political ethics covers cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal and misanthropy, and is accompanied by a description of modern public opinion about these vices

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