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Moral Virtue and Nature: A Defense of Ethical Naturalism (Continuum Studies in Philosophy, 28)
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2008
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The Condition
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Milligan and the Preacher
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Why write? To tell a story.
We should start at the beginning, perhaps, even if that beginning is in medias res. There is no need, in this day, to worry ourselves over providing a deep backstory at the outset, á lá Dostoyevsky or Dickens, where we detail how the narrator or protagonist came to be. Not just how he came to be in his current predicament, such as it is, but how he came to be at all. It might be his family saga, o
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"Cockfighter is the third Willeford I've read, and the common denominator among them, beyond their dark and subversive bent, are protagonists who lead their lives with absolute confidence and certainty, even if those lives may be wicked. The narrator,"
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"Fast, sure, with Ocala dirt under its cracked, yellowed fingernails ... whatever you think of the milieu, it feels "lived-in," with vivid, genuine, expertly drawn characters."
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"I read this on the recommendation of Dwight Garner and was expecting a serious deconstruction of masculinity, the allure of violence, the primal joy of bloodlust, and the "a rolling stone carries no moss" nomadic lifestyle of the devoted but was inst"
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"I don’t care a thing about the world of cockfighting— in fact, I find it repulsive— but I do like books about process, and was weirdly compelled by the depth of detail and research here. The actual plot starts strong, takes weird detours, and mostly "
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“This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn’t gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it’s a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.”
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