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| | Jane Austin & Philosophy |
 | | “Jane Austen and the Aristotelian Ethic.” Philosophy and Literature 23 (1999): 96-109. |
 | | Although Jane Austen has much in common with both Plato and Aristotle—she is rather an ironist than a didactic writer and her figures illustrate abstract concepts, like many of Plato’s, but her fiction embodies an Aristotelian aesthetic—her ethics is just an Aristotelian one, says David Gallop. |
 | | Gallop analyzes characters and their behaviors in mot of Austen’s novels, arguing that her ethical view, as Aristotle’s, is entirely naturalistic, her values are consistently humanist, secular, traditional, sober, and respectful of common-sense intuitions, and her language is, like Aristotle’s, never religious or mystical in tone. |
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