Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments in Vanity Fair Lessons in Business Ethics from Becky Sharp /

According to Adam Smith, vanity is a vice that contains a promise: a vain person is much more likely than a person with low self-esteem to accomplish great things. Problematic as it may be from a moral perspective, vanity makes a person more likely to succeed in business, politics and other public p...

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1. Verfasser: Slegers, Rosa (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Issues in Business Ethics, 49
Schlagworte:
Ethics.
Philology.
Linguistics.
Business.
Management science.
ISBN:9783319987316
ISSN:0925-6733 ;
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • A profile of Becky Sharp
  • Chapter 1 - To be quiet and very much interested
  • Chapter 2 - Educating the martial spirit
  • Chapter 3 - Ambition, the poor man's son, and the poor man's daughter
  • Chapter 4 - The self-estimation and self-command of a mighty conqueror
  • Chapter 5 - Partial and impartial spectators in Vanity Fair
  • Chapter 6 - An industrious knave becomes respectable
  • Conclusion.

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