The risk of being : what it means to be good and bad /

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Author / Creator:Gelven, Michael.
Imprint:University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1997.
Description:viii, 169 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2784817
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ISBN:0271017074 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271017082 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Locating the question
  • Prelude: Raising the Question. 1. Provoking Phenomena
  • Pt. 2. What it Means to be Bad. 2. The Three Ways to Be Bad. 3. The Foolish and the Silly. 4. Temptation. 5. Corruption. 6. Punishment and Forgiveness. 7. Can the Good Do What Is Bad? (Transition)
  • Pt. 3. What It Means to be Good. 8. The First Way of Being Good: Judgment. 9. The Second Way of Being Good: Moral Strength. 10. The Most Troubling Moral Judgment (Transition). 11. The Third Way of Being Good: Character
  • Pt. 4. Confronting the Good. 12. The Pathos of Being Good. 13. The Logos of Being Good. 14. The Reality of Being Good.