Ethical Pluralism and Moral Conflict in Aeschylus's Oresteia
Gåvertsson, Frits LU
(2017)
In Philosophy and Literature
41(1A).
p.24-39
- Abstract
- Building on the works of James J. Helm, I argue that it is both fruitful and plausible to read Aeschylus’s Oresteia as expounding a coherent moral outlook. Going beyond Helm, I offer a reading of the trilogy as incorporating a system of deontic requirements that amounts to a kind of noncodi able ethical pluralism that does not fall prey to any blatant self-contradictions and that can be interpreted either as a form of nonnaturalist realism or as a kind of communitarian constructivism.
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- 2017-07
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- 41
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- 1A
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- 16 pages
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- Johns Hopkins University Press
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- 0190-0013
- DOI
- 10.1353/phl.2017.0020
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- English
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