
Ends of Life
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1. FULFILMENT IN AN AGE OF LIMITED POSSIBILITIES
- The Idea of Fulfilment
- The Constraints of the Age
- New Aspirations
- Individuality
- 2. MILITARY PROWESS
- Arms and the Man
- The Waning of the Military Ideal
- Appendix: Monarchs and Military Prowess
- 3. WORK AND VOCATION
- The Primal Curse?
- The Rewards of Labour
- 4. WEALTH AND POSSESSIONS
- Goods and the Social Order
- Possessions and their Meaning
- From Hostility to Acceptance
- Wealth as Fulfilment?
- 5. HONOUR AND REPUTATION
- Precedence and Superiority
- Aristocratic Honour
- The Honour of the People
- Credit and Shame
- The Decline of Honour?
- 6. FRIENDSHIP AND SOCIABILITY
- The Idea of Friendship
- Male and Female Friends
- Marriage and Children
- Sociability
- 7. FAME AND THE AFTERLIFE
- Heaven and Hell
- Posthumous Fame
- The Quest for Immortality
- Inexorable Oblivion?
- Note on References
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
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