Reasonableness, moral conflict, and tragedy in the Children act, by Ian McEwan
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literature, reasonableness, moral conflict, tragedy, moral lossAbstract
In this paper I accept as an axiom that literature is a source of moral reflection. I try to take under consideration a literary story of Ian McEwan that raises both legal and moral problems. In order to analyze these problems, I will connect three key concepts: reasonableness, moral conflict and tragedy. I will also expound the notion of moral loss, involved in the judicial decision of a conflict. In addition, I attempt to show how a judge’s decision can affect the direction and the course of a life plan
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