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Book SynopsisGeorge Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell''s work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell''s written works are of ethical significance, but he also affirmed and defended substantive ethical claims about humanism, well-being, normative ethics, free will and moral responsibility, moral psychology, decency, equality, liberty, justice, and political morality. In George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality, philosopher Peter Brian Barry avoids a narrow reading of Orwell that considers only a few of his best-known works and instead considers the entirety of Orwell''s corpus, including his fiction, journalism, essays, book reviews, diaries, and correspondence, contending that there are ethical commitments discernible throughout his work that ground some of his best-known pronouncements and positions. While Orwell is often read as a humani
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. George Orwell: Philosophical Outsider Chapter 2. George Orwell: The Age's Advocate Chapter 3. Orwell on Free Will and Responsibility Chapter 4. Orwellian Moral Psychology Chapter 5. Orwellian Decency Chapter 6. Orwell's Egalitarianism Chapter 7. George Orwell and Left-Libertarianism Chapter 8. Orwell's Incomplete Case for Socialism Index
