Loyalty The Vexing Virtue

Name: Loyalty The Vexing Virtue
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ISBN: 9781439176870

ISBN-10: 1439176876

ISBN-13: 9781439176870

Edition: N/A

Authors: Eric Felten

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A witty, provocative, story-filled inquiry into the indispensable virtue of loyalty—a tricky ideal that gets tangled and compromised when loyalties collide (as they inevitably do), but a virtue the author, a prizewinning columnist for The Wall Street Journal, says is as essential as it is impossible. Felten illustrates the push and pull of loyalties— from the ancient Greeks to Facebook—with stories and scenarios in which conflicting would-be moral trump cards trap the unlucky in painful ethical dilemmas. The foundation of our greatest satisfactions in life, loyalty also proves to be the root of much misery. Can we escape the excruciating predicaments when loyalties are at loggerheads? Can…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 4.67" wide x 7.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English