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Harry Potter’s Ethical Paradigms: Augustine, Kant, and Feminist Moral Theory
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 40, 2012
- pp. 191-217
- 10.1353/chl.2012.0021
- Article
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Harry Potter has been a maelstrom of religious controversy. This essay argues that the core engagement of the Potter books is ethical rather than doctrinal, drawing on ethical traditions from Augustine and Kant, but treating and critiquing them in ways that accord with current trends in feminist moral theory.