Inability, culpability and affected ignorance: Reflections on michele moody-adams

History of the Human Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 65-81

  Peacock, Mark ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ancient Greece; culpability; ignorance; relativism; slavery

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959924305     PISSN: 09526951     EISSN: 1461720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0952695111412865     Document Type: Article

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