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Judith Shklar’s Ordinary Vices is often oversimplified, and its radicalism underplayed. Far from simply endorsing “putting cruelty first,” the work doubts that this is politically desirable (or even clearly possible).
Ordinary Vices and The Faces of Injustice articulate Shklar's attempts to fill this gap in philosophical thought, drawing heavily on literature as well as philosophy to argue that injustice and the "sense of injustice" are historically and culturally universal and are critical concepts for modern political and philosophical theory.
May 29, 2019 · An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Internet Archive Audio. ... Ordinary vices by Shklar, Judith N. Publication date 1984
The seven deadly sins of Christianity represent the abysses of character, whereas Judith Shklar’s “ordinary vices”—cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy—are merely treacherous shoals, flawing our characters with mean-spiritedness and inhumanity.Shklar draws from a brilliant array of writers—Molière and Dickens on hypocrisy, Jane Austen on snobbery, Shakespeare ...
practice cannot be used to reclaim the political goal of human liberation, which is the whole point of a critical theory of society.-Rick Roderick Duke University ORDINARY VICES by Judith N. Shklar. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. Pp. 268. This handsomely produced book is not quite as satisfying to the mind
May 2, 2023 · In Ordinary Vices, Shklar claims that very few people “have chosen to run the emotional and social risks of putting cruelty first, to regard it as unconditionally the summum malum,” which is unsurprising if it really does “doom one to a life of skepticism, indecision, disgust, and often misanthropy” (OV, 8). Her starting point is the ...
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Jul 1, 1984 · This book, Ordinary Vices, gets at that idea by attempting to remedy a lack of attention in the history of Western philosophy to vices in contrast to virtues. The first two chapters were the most interesting to me, where she introduces her project of pondering vices, and then talks about the implications of ranking cruelty as the worst in a hierarchy of vices.
