Title: Deadly vices /
Authors: Taylor, Gabriele.
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Vices.; Agent (Philosophy)
Abstract: "Gabriele Taylor presents a philosophical investigation of the 'ordinary' vices traditionally seen as 'death to the soul': sloth, envy, avarice, pride, anger, lust, and gluttony. This complements recent work by moral philosophers on virtue, and opens up the neglected topic of the vices for further study. Whilst in a mild form the vices may be ordinary and common failing, Deadly Vices makes the case that for those wholly in their grip they are fatally destructive, preventing the flourishing of the self and of a worthwhile life."
Contents: Vices and virtue-theory -- 'Deadly sins' -- Envy and covetousness -- Self and self-consciousness -- Pride and anger -- Interconnections -- 'Capital vices' -- Countervailing virtues.