num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They Really Mean, and Where They Might Be Taking Us
publisher: Moon Books