In Defense of Sin

In Defense of Sin
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9781403961426
ISBN-13 : 1403961425
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Book Synopsis In Defense of Sin by : John Portmann

Download or read book In Defense of Sin written by John Portmann and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-03-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intriguing, and occasionally unsettling, In Defense of Sinis a refreshingly frank exploration of some real facts of life. Portmann gathers an on-target collection of great writers on transgressions large and small. Read about defenses for promiscuity, greed, deceit, gossip, lust, breaking the golden rule, and more--and use this unusual guide to decide for yourself if sin has a place in our contemporary, and virtually unshockable, society. Provocative and illuminating, this book may change how you think about sin, morality, and what's right. Contributors include Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, Anthony Ellis, Jane English, Ludwig Feuerbach, Sigmund Freud, Bernard Mandeville, Jerome Neu, Friedrich Nietzsche, David Novitz, Joyce Carol Oates, David A.J. Richards, Seneca, Jonathan Swift, Richard Wasserstrom, and Oscar Wilde.


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