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Long Live the Good King: Arthur’s Niebuhrian Kingship and Pursuit of Justice in The Once and Future King
Get PDFThe classic The Once and Future King, written by T.H. White, is a selection of four fantasy novels with one, linear plot: the story of Arthur, the mythological King of England. Reinhold Niebuhr’s book Moral Man and Immoral Society details the Christian realism of a world in need of justice without the ability to achieve perfect application. Through good education, Arthur is well endowed with Niebuhr’s requirements for a functional society: knowledge, honor, wisdom, and compassion. Such king-like qualities make him one of the most influential mythological characters in history, and a grand exemplar for maintaining ethical goals and personal ideals in the reality of a broken world. This essay establishes such political ideals of virtue in the face of realism from Reinhold Niebuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society; identifying themes of ethical support for a focused analysis of kingship as it relates to Arthurian Legend
Donald Coley Matthews 2025
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Kevin Youngblood
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Erik Tryggestad
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