Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the revised edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Luck and ethics
- Part I Tragedy: fragility and ambition
- Part II Plato: goodness without fragility?
- Part III Aristotle: the fragility of the good human life
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index of passages
Part III - Aristotle: the fragility of the good human life
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the revised edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Luck and ethics
- Part I Tragedy: fragility and ambition
- Part II Plato: goodness without fragility?
- Part III Aristotle: the fragility of the good human life
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index of passages
Summary
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot, ‘Little Gidding’That with which people most continuously associate – the discourse that orders everything – with this they are at variance; and what they encounter every day seems strange to them.
Although the discourse is shared (xunou), most people live as if they had a private understanding.
The person who speaks with understanding (xun noōi) must insist upon what is shared (xunōi) by all, as a city insists upon its law.
Heraclitus, DK 72, 2, 114- Type
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- The Fragility of GoodnessLuck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, pp. 235 - 236Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001