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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).
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 ...
Judith Shklar’s account of the social harms caused by everyday cruelty is exceptional in its clarity and ethical value. She walks readers through vices that people often overlook—cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, misanthropy, and betrayal—showing how these “ordinary” ways of ignoring the needs of other people fray the norms of society.
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.
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.
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Use of vices to hold workpieces. Apart from using clamps the most common way of holding a workpiece is by using a vice. In most cases the vice is bolted to the milling table. This is probably the most common set-up for either vertical or horizontal milling. It is usually faster to set-up a workpiece for machining using a vice than using clamps.
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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
