The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

Contents......Page 6
Preface to the Revised Edition......Page 11
Preface......Page 38
Acknowledgements......Page 39
Abbreviations used for journals and reference works......Page 42
1 Luck and ethics......Page 43
Part I  | Tragedy: fragility and ambition......Page 64
2 Aeschylus and practical conflict......Page 65
3 Sophocles' Antigone: conflict, vision, and simplification......Page 91
Part II | Plato: goodness without fragility?......Page 125
Introduction......Page 126
4 The Protagoras: a science of practical reasoning......Page 128
Interlude 1 : Plato's anti-tragic theater......Page 161
5 The Republic: true value and the standpoint of perfection......Page 175
6 The speech of Alcibiades: a reading of the Symposium......Page 204
7 'This story isn't true ': madness, reason, and recantation in the Phaedrus......Page 239
Part III | Aristotle: the fragility of the good human life......Page 273
Introduction......Page 274
8 Saving Aristotle's appearances......Page 277
9 Rational animals and the explanation of action......Page 301
10 Non-scientific deliberation......Page 327
11 The vulnerability of the good human life: activity and disaster......Page 355
12 The vulnerability of the good human life: relational goods......Page 380
Appendix to Part III: human and divine......Page 410
Interlude 2: luck and the tragic emotions......Page 415
Epilogue: tragedy......Page 432
13 The betrayal of convention: a reading of Euripides' Hecuba......Page 433
I Luck and ethics......Page 458
2 Aeschylus and practical conflict.......Page 461
3 Sophocles' Antigone': conftict, vision, and simplification......Page 471
4 The Protagoras: a science of practical reason......Page 478
Interlude I -  Plato's anti-tragic theater......Page 488
5 The Republic: true value and the stand point of perfection......Page 492
6 The apeech of Alcibiades: a reading of the Symposium......Page 500
7 "This story isn't true": madness, reason, and recantation in the Phaedrus......Page 505
8 Saving Aristode's appearances......Page 514
9 Rational animals and the explanation of action......Page 519
10 Non-scientific deliberation......Page 526
11 The vulnerability of the good human life: activity and disaster......Page 529
12 The vulnerability of the good human life: relational goods......Page 533
lnterlude 2 Luck and the tragic emotions......Page 536
13 The betrayal of convention: a reading of Euripides' Hecuba......Page 540
Bibliography......Page 548
Generai index......Page 562
Index of passages......Page 571