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Use ONLY the texts we have used in class. There must be NO internet research for this paper.
Course texts:
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex. ISBN Not the Dover Edition
Shakespeare, Hamlet. ISBN 0-14-071405-7
Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. James W. Ellington. Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing, 1993. (pp. 1-3; 49-50) ISBN 0-87220-166-X.
PAPER TOPIC
In Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Kant examines the will and presents his argument for how the will is free. In the plays Oedipus Rex and Hamlet we see the central characters caught in situations which they would not choose willingly. Their responses indicate very different understandings of human action, ultimately leading to very different notions of the human condition. Following from Kant’s understanding of the will show how these plays lead us to an understanding of how the will may act in freedom.
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