Law, Crime, Morals, and Sense of Justice in Treasure Island

Iker Nabaskues

doi:10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0983

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Iker Nabaskues

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https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0983

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La Isla del Tesoro, los personajes del relato, sentido de justicia, piratas, Stevenson, Long John Silver, Jim Hawkins

Resumen

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las complejidades jurídicas, éticas y morales presentes en La isla del tesoro, obra maestra de Robert Louis Stevenson, y en la narración Los personajes del relato. La metodología consiste en la observación cualitativa de varios pasajes del libro. Ese análisis muestra un paisaje moral cambiante donde los personajes hacen elecciones morales fuera de las convenciones morales y sociales. No hay instituciones jurídicas en la isla; pero en todo momento se nos hace recordar el imperio de la ley. Stevenson utiliza este particular escenario para expresar un código moral muy especial y sugerente, donde la ambigüedad, lo paradójico y lo contradictorio son las tónicas dominantes. Hay muy pocas obras sobre Stevenson desde un enfoque iusfilosófico, por lo cual el artículo hace una aportación al campo del Derecho y la Literatura.

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Iker Nabaskues

Iker Nabaskues is PhD in Philosophy of Law in the Department of Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law of the Faculty of Law (University of Basque Country, Spain). He worked at Public Administration in Social Services with young offenders and their social insertion for a decade. He specialized in welfare politics and he is author of some books, about the impact of globalization on local policies, among others, Globalization and New Local Policies (2003), published by the Basque Institute of Public Administration. He nowadays teaches Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law in the city of San Sebastian (Basque Country).

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