The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They Really Mean, and Where They Might Be Taking Us

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.

Author: Brendan Myers
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Moon Books
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.66w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781846941153