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How humanity’s view of virtues and sins has changed through the ages 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 desires have been considered to be inherently evil, but that is not a position taken for granted in other cultures. Virtue and sin seem to represent a duality that is as old as humankind.  This anthology explores how perceptions of virtues and sins have changed through history. The essays take ancient Greece and Rome as their starting point, move to the early Christian period from St. Augustine to Dante, and then on to more recent philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche. The writers also touch on everything from Confucian China and ancient India to self-help books, transhumanism, and AI, as well as the existence or nonexistence of human rights.

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Katarina Barrling, Associate Professor of Political Science, Uppsala University  David Butterfield, PhD, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge Par Cassel, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan Marie Kawthar Daouda, PhD Literature, Author and lecturer, University of Oxford Torbjorn Elensky, Author and culture writer Jessica Frazier, Lecturer in the Study of Religion, University of Oxford and Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Peter Halden, Reader in War Studies, Swedish Defence University  Thomas Idergard, Jesuit Priest, Chairman of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Diocese of Stockholm, Columnist Anthony Pagden, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Los Angeles, California.  Ritchie Robertson, Emeritus Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature, University of Oxford Hans Ruin, Professor of Philosophy, Södertörn University Malise Ruthven, Independent Writer and Researcher, PhD Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge Mateusz Strozynski, Associate Professor, Institute of Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University  Fredrik Svenaeus, Professor of Philosophy, Södertörn University  Sten Widmalm, Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University

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