Sarah Trott
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496808646
- eISBN:
- 9781496808684
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496808646.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
Chapter four explores how the symptoms of war trauma have been transferred onto Chandler’s protagonist Philip Marlowe. Marlowe’s character traits will be closely examined by considering certain ...
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Chapter four explores how the symptoms of war trauma have been transferred onto Chandler’s protagonist Philip Marlowe. Marlowe’s character traits will be closely examined by considering certain notable features such as the detective’s origins, characterization, disillusionment and his chivalric code of honour. Like Chandler, it becomes possible to identify the small but distinctive aspects of Marlowe’s character that suggest that he was a psychologically damaged war veteran fighting new battles on a different front.Less
Chapter four explores how the symptoms of war trauma have been transferred onto Chandler’s protagonist Philip Marlowe. Marlowe’s character traits will be closely examined by considering certain notable features such as the detective’s origins, characterization, disillusionment and his chivalric code of honour. Like Chandler, it becomes possible to identify the small but distinctive aspects of Marlowe’s character that suggest that he was a psychologically damaged war veteran fighting new battles on a different front.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199862580
- eISBN:
- 9780199369638
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199862580.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Moral Philosophy
The question of whether or not addicts are responsible for their addiction-related actions is confused both because addictions vary widely in important ways and also because responsibility comes in ...
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The question of whether or not addicts are responsible for their addiction-related actions is confused both because addictions vary widely in important ways and also because responsibility comes in degrees that vary with the degree of control that an addict has over different decisions. I try to make sense out of this confusion by defining addiction in general and clarifying some dimensions along which control and responsibility vary in addiction. Then I address the common objection from transference, which claims that addicts are fully responsible for their actions because they were fully responsible for getting themselves addicted in the first place.Less
The question of whether or not addicts are responsible for their addiction-related actions is confused both because addictions vary widely in important ways and also because responsibility comes in degrees that vary with the degree of control that an addict has over different decisions. I try to make sense out of this confusion by defining addiction in general and clarifying some dimensions along which control and responsibility vary in addiction. Then I address the common objection from transference, which claims that addicts are fully responsible for their actions because they were fully responsible for getting themselves addicted in the first place.
