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• W1120373872 abstract "Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn't do good for people, she did right by them. But Nanny knew that people don't always appreciate right. Like old Pollitt other day, when he fell offhis horse. What he wanted was a painkiller. What he needed was few seconds of agony as Granny popped joint back into place. trouble was, people remembered pain. (Pratchett The Sea and Little Fishes 235)1 It is commonly argued that touchstone of Terry Pratchett's ethics is individual, construed within a broad existentialist framework, such that true morality is based on value of (Mendlesohn 248). That is central claim of Farah Mendlesohn's contribution Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature. While four essays that comprise Ethics and Good Life in Philosophy and Terry Pratchett all approach Pratchett's fiction from different philosophical perspectives, including virtue ethics and Kantian ethics, what writers celebrate in Pratchett's fiction is choice of individual. One example is Susanne Foster's essay, which uses Pratchett's writing critique Aristotle's virtue ethics for being overly prescriptive, and for not giving enough focus individual conceptions of good (193). However, these views neglect sources of value beyond individual choice which are vital understanding of Pratchett's moral schema. importance of professional ethics in Discworld novels forces us revise, some extent, existentialist understanding of Pratchett's ethics, and be more open community as a positive source of value in novels. Witchcraftas practised by Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Tiffany Aching, amongst others, demonstrates how professional values, external individual, commit these characters the good and best interests of person be served (Pellegrino 62). In case of witchcraft, these values are made doubly interesting by gendered nature of profession, and 'white knowledge' that informs our understanding of their professional practice (qtd. in Manninen 82). [1]2 Pratchett has reflected in a number of ways on characteristics of his writing over years; concept of (otherwise known as narrativium) is perhaps most famous of these (Pratchett, Witches Abroad 8; Pratchett, Stewart, and Cohen, Science of Discworld 10). Narrative causality shapes events on Discworld in ostensibly predictable ways, and resembles, at least passingly, dread hand of Fate, against which one can struggle but become only more engaged. In case of witches, influence of narrative causality can be traced Shakespeare, Robert Graves, and Margaret Murray amongst others. Individual characters in novels are temporarily swept up from their normal lives and pulled against their will into narrative arc of a quite different story, often in genre of fairy tale; in case of Witches Abroad, this is Cinderella, and numerous characters find themselves relegated playing roles for which they are unsuited. As Andy Sawyer puts it, [w]hat operates our universe is cause and effect...[w]hat operates Discworld is narrative and personification (168). This claim makes Pratchett's fiction particularly important those interested in problems of ethics in literature. Virtue ethicists of all stripes have insisted on narrative character of ethical problems over and against duty or consequence based views; this is summed up in Alasdair MacIntyre's claim that to adopt a stance on virtues will be adopt a stance on narrative character of human life (143-144). By reflecting on how stories shape our ethical sensibilities, we can ourselves become better at and more engaged with practical reasoning, and see that our sources of value are diverse and shared. They do not spring from choice alone, but from our identity defined in much broader terms than those suggested by an existentialist insistence on individual will and self-definition:I define who I am by defining where I speak from, in family tree, in social space, in geography of social statuses and functions, in my intimate relations ones I love, and also crucially in space of moral and spiritual orientation within which my most important defining relations are lived out. …" @default.
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