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The Moral Compass

By Evan Carey

The Hexis

  • Techne, Morals based on others, and Phronesis all influence the hexis
  • It's a person's moral compass
  • Each person set's their own compass by deciding what is right and wrong

Works Cited

Bollinger, Laurel. "Say it, Jim: the morality of connection in Adventures of Huckleberry

Finn."College Literature 29.1 (2002): 32+.Literature Resource Center. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.

Boone, N.S. "Openness to contingency: Huckleberry Finn and the morality of phronesis."

Studies in the Humanities 31.2 (2004): 173+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 21 Jan.

2016.

LINK, ERIC CARL. "Huck the Thief." The Midwest Quarterly 41.4 (2000): 432. Literature

Resource Center. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.

Mason, Ernest D. “Attraction and Repulsion:Huck Finn ‘Nigger’ Jim, and Black Americans.”

CLA Journal 33 (September 1989):36-48. Web. 21 Jan. 2016

Smith, Cassander L. "'Nigger' or 'slave': why labels matter for Jim (and Twain) in Adventures of

Huckleberry Finn." Papers on Language & Literature 50.2 (2014): 182. Literature

Resource Center. Web. 29 Mar. 2016.

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Dover Publications, 1994. Print.

Phronesis

Morals Based on Relationships

  • Tom's gang of robbers (Twain 9)
  • Huck and Tom stealing a slave (Twain 175-176)
  • Huck's theivery goes "from the imaginary 'julery' and 'ingots' stolen by Tom's harmless band of robbers, to the very real act of slave-stealing on the Phelps's farm" (LINK).
  • Huck deciding to turn Jim in (Twain 67-69)
  • "Huck's conscience bothers him so much at the thought that Jim might steal someone else's property that he decides to "paddle ashore at the first light, and tell." (LINK)
  • Huck "acts strictly through his sense of commitment to his friends" (Bollinger)
  • Wrecked Boat (Twain 49-57)
  • "Huck seems to have condemned the robbers to death by stealing their canoe...he learns from the robbers...to [not] be murderous himself by showing a genuine concern for the well-being of others." (LINK)
  • Huck and Jim Nearing Cairo (Twain 67-69)
  • Phelp's Farm (Twain 175-176)
  • "Huck is stuck between appeasing two friendships (Smith)" when Tom and Jim are both in danger

Techne

  • "The voices of Pap, the widow and Miss Watson...are in constant dialogue within him and speak Huck into action"(Boone)
  • Huck and Jim decide it is okay to steal some things but not others (Twain 49)
  • "Huck is not always for Jim; but he somehow manages to stay with him." (Mason)
  • Huck goes to get doctor because he Jim has told him what is the right thing to do (Twain 207-208)

Plot Summary

  • Huckleberry Finn Runs away
  • He meets Jim (a runaway)on an Island
  • They travel on the Mississippi River

Thesis

People develop through making decisions. These decisions are influenced by different kinds of morals and make people who they are.

Morals

Techne

"A term taken from the kind of knowledge artisans use to construct an object according to a predetermined plan." (Boone)

Hexis

  • "one's moral being" (Boone)

Morals Based on Others

Phronesis

  • People make decisions based on an attempt to keep relationships in tact.
  • Heinz's Dilema (Bollinger)
  • "'practical wisdom' or "wisdom in action," and it designates behavior that is good in itself, means and ends undivided." (Otswald qtd. in Boone)
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