TY - JOUR
T1 - Work, character and invisible virtue
T2 - Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father in the context of his philosophy
AU - Segal, Alexander
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: month (773h) = October; Journal title (773t) = Meridian: The La Trobe University English Review. ISSNs: 0728-5914;
PY - 2007/10
Y1 - 2007/10
N2 - The article argues that Raimond Gaita's memoir Romulus, My Father is itself marked by the incommensurability ' between a worldly Aristotelian ethic, emphasising mutually recognised virtue, and an otherworldly Socratic ethic for which virtue is not internally connected to recognition ' that Gaita invokes to describe his father's conduct. To this extent the memoir resists its author's attempt to conceptualise it, a resistance connected to its being so haunting.
AB - The article argues that Raimond Gaita's memoir Romulus, My Father is itself marked by the incommensurability ' between a worldly Aristotelian ethic, emphasising mutually recognised virtue, and an otherworldly Socratic ethic for which virtue is not internally connected to recognition ' that Gaita invokes to describe his father's conduct. To this extent the memoir resists its author's attempt to conceptualise it, a resistance connected to its being so haunting.
KW - Open access version available
KW - My Father Plato Aristotle virtue character memoir philosophy
KW - Raimond Gaita Romulus
M3 - Article
VL - 19
SP - 19
EP - 38
JO - Meridian: The La Trobe University English Review
JF - Meridian: The La Trobe University English Review
SN - 0728-5914
IS - 2
ER -