| Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style: Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, and Garibaldi Contributor(s): Belliotti, Raymond Angelo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1683932757 ISBN-13: 9781683932758 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $127.71 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - History | Europe - Italy - Literary Criticism | European - Italian |
| Dewey: 170.945 |
| LCCN: 2020033431 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.26 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style illustrates the story of the evolution of Italian values, virtues, and vices is a narrative of longing, exhilaration, and devastation, a journey of the spirit that all human beings necessarily undertake but navigate with varying degrees of success. The lives of Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, and Garibaldi demonstrate how we can lead staunchly meaningful lives even within an inherently meaningless universe. The ambition of this work is nothing more, nothing less, than entangling, through a careful examination of the values, virtues, and vices of four famous historical figures, a host of overlapping but distinct concepts, such as pride, honor, justification, excuse, repentance, and forgiveness that frame human existence. Belliotti's objective is that by conducting such an interdisciplinary inquiry we might better position ourselves to craft our characters within the limitations enjoined by our cosmic circumstances. As always, however, we must deliberate, choose, and act under conditions of inescapable uncertainty; assume responsibility for the people we are becoming; and, hopefully, depart the planet with honor and merited pride. Along the way, we might even magnify our link in the generational chain that defines our identity. |