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Article: Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama.(Book review)
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- Shakespeare Studies
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- January 1, 2008
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Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama
By Tzachi Zamir
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007
Once upon a time, let's say just after the middle of the eighteenth century, someone discovered that Shakespeare is a great moral philosopher. In my view this should count as a genuine discovery in the human sciences. Like all important discoveries, Shakespeare's value in moral philosophy can only be articulated in relation to developments in certain auxiliary sciences, in this case ethics, social theory, and the science of human motivation. Shakespeare's critics in the eighteenth century could draw on classical sources (Aristotle, ...