To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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Tim Dare (essay date April 2001)

Tim Dare (essay date April 2001)

SOURCE: Dare, Tim. “Lawyers, Ethics, and To Kill a Mockingbird.” Philosophy and Literature 25, no. 1 (April 2001): 127-41.

[In the following essay, Dare discusses the issue of moral responsibility in the legal profession in terms of ethical and moral philosophy, and evaluates whether or not the character of Atticus Finch serves as a positive role model for lawyers.]

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Lawyers are widely thought to be callous, self-serving, devious, and indifferent to justice, truth, and the public good. The law...

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