Virtues and Vices

Katarina Barrling

What is a virtue and what is a sin? Is it possible to say that our actions are evil or good? Every age and culture have their own answers to these timeless questions. For example, in the Western Protestant tradition, the human body and its desire have...

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Opening Credits

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Introduction

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Forging Virtue in the Furnace of Greece and Rome

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Imperfect Virtues and Deadly Vices

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How Sin Vanished and Virtue Was Privatised

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An Enlightened Virtue: the Equality of the Species and the Abolition of Slavery

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'Self-love and Social': Some Enlightenment Concepts of Human Nature and its Social Expression

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Freedom's Paradox and the Price of Sin

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Nietzsche and the Transformation of the Virtues

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Confucianism and Filial Piety: When Political Loyalty Was Not a Civic Virtue

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Belief and Belonging: Reflections on Virtue and Power

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The Dharma King and the Liberated Sage

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We Need Self-Help Books, but Self-Help Books Don't Help

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Sins and Humans: How Individual Sin Shaped the Western Concept of a Person

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Is Heroism in Combat Courageous? An Attempt to Answer Pope Francis with Virtue Ethics

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Transhumanism and AI: the Ultimate Expression of Pride?

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The Journey to Conservatism and a Diverse Sweden

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Ending Credits

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