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The author is a philosopher, but much of his book is directed to writers such as Homer and the tragedians, whom he discusses as poets and not just materials for philosophy. At the center of his study is the question of how we can understand Greek tragedy at all, when its world is so far from ours.

Greek poetry --- Necessity (Philosophy) in literature. --- Philosophy, Ancient, in literature. --- Ethics in literature. --- Shame in literature. --- History and criticism. --- -Necessity (Philosophy) in literature --- Philosophy, Ancient, in literature --- Ethics in literature --- Shame in literature --- Greek literature --- History and criticism --- Necessity (Philosophy) in literature --- CDL --- 82 --- History --- Greek poetry - History and criticism.

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What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. Modern culture exhibits two attitudes toward truth: suspicion of being deceived (no one wants to be fooled) and skepticism that objective truth exists at all (no one wants to be naive). This tension between a demand for truthfulness and the doubt that there is any truth to be found is not an abstract paradox. It has political consequences and signals a danger that our intellectual activities, particularly in the humanities, may tear themselves to pieces. Williams's approach, in the tradition of Nietzsche's genealogy, blends philosophy, history, and a fictional account of how the human concern with truth might have arisen. Without denying that we should worry about the contingency of much that we take for granted, he defends truth as an intellectual objective and a cultural value. He identifies two basic virtues of truth, Accuracy and Sincerity, the first of which aims at finding out the truth and the second at telling it. He describes different psychological and social forms that these virtues have taken and asks what ideas can make best sense of them today. Truth and Truthfulness presents a powerful challenge to the fashionable belief that truth has no value, but equally to the traditional faith that its value guarantees itself. Bernard Williams shows us that when we lose a sense of the value of truth, we lose a lot both politically and personally, and may well lose everything.

Credibilite --- Credibility --- Falsehood --- Geloofwaardigheid --- Insincerite --- Leugen --- Lying --- Mensonge --- Onoprechtheid --- Truth --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Untruthfulness --- Vérité --- Vérité et mensonge --- Waarheid --- Waarheid en leugen --- Believability --- Truth. --- Truthfulness and falsehood. --- Reliability --- Honesty --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Post-truth --- #A0212W --- Philosophical anthropology --- Theory of knowledge --- genealogie --- kennisleer

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A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been strikingly reinvigorated over the last deacde, and philosophers have both broadened and deepened their concerns in a way that now makes much earlier moral and political philosophy look sterile and trivial. Moral Luck contains a number of essays that have contributed influentially to this development. Among the recurring themes are the moral and philosophical limitations of utilitarianism, the notion of integrity, relativism, and problems of moral conflict and rational choice. The work presented here is marked by a high degree of imagination and acuity, and also conveys a strong sense of psychological reality. The volume will be a stimulating source of ideas and arguments for all philosophers and a wide range of other readers.

Ethics --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Philosophical anthropology --- General ethics --- Arts and Humanities --- Ethics.

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Descartes, René, --- Descartes, René --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650.

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