Wolf Hall and moral personhood

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F19%3A39915437" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/19:39915437 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/ebce/9/3-4/article-p197.xml" target="_blank" >https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/ebce/9/3-4/article-p197.xml</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2019-0021" target="_blank" >10.2478/ebce-2019-0021</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Wolf Hall and moral personhood
Original language description
Can a good man do evil things? This paper offers a moral philosophical reading of Hilary Mantel's novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the bodies, focusing on Mantel's fictional portrayal of Thomas Cromwell as a good person, in spite of his growing involvement in the dirty work of Henry VIII. The narrative resists interpretations of Cromwell as someone corrupted by power. It also thwarts attempts to read his deeds as results of a deficient capacity for sympathetic imagination, which has been a focalized moral flaw in contemporary moral philosophical discussions of literature. By thus resisting moralized readings of his character, the novels invite intensified attention to the complex dynamics of character and circumstance.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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