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Social Science General

The Other Side of Virtue

Where Our Virtues Come From, What They Really Mean, and Where They Might Be Taking Us

by (author) Brendan Myers

Publisher
Collective Ink
Initial publish date
Apr 2008
Category
General, Reference
  • 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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