Moral Obligations, Virtue Ethics, and "Gentil" Character in Chaucer's "Franklin's Tale."

Author / Editor
Greene, Darragh.

Title
Moral Obligations, Virtue Ethics, and "Gentil" Character in Chaucer's "Franklin's Tale."

Published
Chaucer Review 50.1โ€“2 (2015): 88-107.

Description
Argues that the Franklin presents a formula for happiness: living a life of "gentilesse" as opposed to the principle of adhering to a law-based system of morality.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale