The Natural
Malamud's Metamyth of a Moral Will Through the Moral Hero
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10759542 |
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| Authors | Oscar Salinas (0000-0002-8744-1786, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 100-125 |
| Publication date | 2014-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Soundings An Interdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-1861 • E-ISSN: 2161-6302 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/soundings.97.1.0100 |
| OpenAlex | W1504991374 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Roy Hobbs was born to be a Great Man. In addition to the physical gifts of a natural athlete, Roy possesses the traits of a moral hero: empathy, reflectivity, and autonomy. Yet he fails both as baseball hero and moral hero. Why? In The Natural, Malamud tackles the age-old philosophical problem of free will versus determinism. Through narrative, he presents the novel argument that though there is no free will, there is the possibility of a moral will through determinism, in particular through the example of the moral hero who has been nurtured to be strong enough to be good
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Autonomy · Determinism · Empathy · Epistemology · Free will · HERO · Literature · Narrative · Natural (archaeology · Political science · American Jewish Fiction Analysis · American Sports and Literature · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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