Work, character and invisible virtue: Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father in the context of his philosophy

Alexander Segal

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)19-38
Number of pages20
JournalMeridian: The La Trobe University English Review
Volume19
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2007

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Segal, Alexander. / Work, character and invisible virtue : Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father in the context of his philosophy. In: Meridian: The La Trobe University English Review. 2007 ; Vol. 19, No. 2. pp. 19-38.
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Segal, A 2007, 'Work, character and invisible virtue: Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father in the context of his philosophy', Meridian: The La Trobe University English Review, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 19-38.

Work, character and invisible virtue : Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father in the context of his philosophy. / Segal, Alexander.

In: Meridian: The La Trobe University English Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, 10.2007, p. 19-38.

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Segal A. Work, character and invisible virtue: Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father in the context of his philosophy. Meridian: The La Trobe University English Review. 2007 Oct;19(2):19-38.

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