Moral Responsibility in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Angie Allard, Simon Fraser University download this essay as a pdf file: Allard_Frankenstein American philosopher Martha Nussbaum believes that everyone has the capacity for evil and that it is more closely connected with circumstance than with any innate human quality. In Upheavals of Thought she writes, … in reality it seems likely that all humans [...]

Passionate Endings: Locating Felicity in Tragedy

Michael Cox, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. download essay: Passionate Endings Give me that man That is not passion’s slave and I will wear him In my heart’s core (Hamlet, 3.2.68) Nothing is less in our power than the heart which is more apt to command us than to obey (Heloise, 105) Socrates claims happiness is [...]

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