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What's stopping me
Breaking bad and virtue ethics
pp. 3-15
Abstrakt
Breaking Bad poses a question about morality: if there is no such thing as cosmic justice, what is the point of being good? In this chapter, I argue that the writers of Breaking Bad ably convey a Miltonic account of evil, continue and improve upon the very argument Milton made in Paradise Lost, secularizing it and applying it to our era. Yet I argue that the show ends up offering a critique of Miltonic ethics. It is Aristotelian virtue ethics, and not Miltonic ethics, that offers a better answer to the question "Why be moral?" Walter White's dramatized life, in other words, is an inadequate response to the question.
Publication details
Published in:
Arp Robert (2017) Philosophy and breaking bad. Dordrecht, Springer.
Seiten: 3-15
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40343-4_1
Referenz:
Baker Jen (2017) „What's stopping me: Breaking bad and virtue ethics“, In: R. Arp (ed.), Philosophy and breaking bad, Dordrecht, Springer, 3–15.