Intention, Choice and Identity in Thomas More’s The History of King Richard the Third/Historia Richardi Tertii
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20145562 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel Gregg (0000-0002-9655-7801, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 49 (Number 189 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 213-238 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moreana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-8105 • E-ISSN: 2398-4961 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/more.2012.49.3-4.14 |
| OpenAlex | W2588637174 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Questions of intentionality and identity have been central to moral and philosophical reflection since Plato. This paper examines the workings of intentionality and free choice in shaping the moral identity of key characters in Thomas More’s The History of King Richard the Third. This reveals More’s emphasis upon the intransitive dimension of human action which makes people as much the object of their own choices as those transitive ends they pursue. The History thus confirms More as someone opposed to deterministic accounts of human choice, a position sharpened in More’s critiques of Reformation conceptions of the will throughout the 1520s
Action (physics) · Aesthetics · Dimension (graph theory) · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Intentionality · Key (lock) · Object (grammar) · Sociology · Transitive relation · Computer Science · Mathematics · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |