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The Ethical Detective: Moral Philosophy and Detective Fiction

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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Detective fiction and philosophy3/4moral philosophy in particular3/4may seem like an odd combination. Working within the framework offered by neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, this book makes the case that moral philosophers ought to take murder mysteries seriously, seeing them as a source of ethical insight, and as a tool that can be used to spark the ethical imagination. Detective fiction is a literary genre that asks readers to consider questions of good and evil, justice and injustice, virtue and vice, and is, consequently, a profoundly and inescapably ethical genre. Moreover, in the figure of the detective, readers are presented with an accessible role model who demonstrates the virtues of honesty, courage, and a commitment to justice that are required by those who want to live well as a virtue ethicist would understand it. This book also offers a critique of contemporary moral philosophy, and considers what features a neo-Aristotelian conception of autonomy might display.

  • Title

    The Ethical Detective: Moral Philosophy and Detective Fiction

  • Author

    Rachel Haliburton

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

  • Published

    February 2018

  • Weight

    563g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781498536806

  • ISBN-10

    1498536808

  • Eden Code

    4740452

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