Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "character"

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    • Character before the Novel: Representing Moral Identity in the Age of Shakespeare 

      Graham, Jamey Elizabeth (2013-02-20)
      This dissertation argues that the modern concept of literary character was an unintended consequence of Renaissance moral poetics. The evolution of "character" as a term of literary analysis, from the rediscovery of ...

    • Democratic Theory and the Question of Character 

      Nitsch, Michael (2013-02-12)
      This dissertation uses the history of political thought to shed light on the disconnect between the prominent place of judgments about the character in American democratic life, and the marginalized place of those judgments ...

    • The General Point of View: Love and Moral Approval in Hume's Ethics 

      Korsgaard, Christine (Oxford University Press, 2008)
      Hume thinks moral judgments are based on sentiments of approval and disapproval we feel when we contemplate someone from a “general point of view.” But why do we take up the general point of view? Hume argues that we take ...