Ethics in biography writing
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The Ethics of Biography and Autobiography
Abstract
I shall be arguing that biographers and autobiographers incur different kinds of moral risk, just as they pursue different moral opportunities. To set some contexts, I shall risk an autobiographical account of my work in ethics and literature, begun in the late 1960s.
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Laurence S.
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