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Kahambing, Jan Gresil de los Santos
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ALADDIN AS AN IMMORAL ETHICIST IN ALADDIN AND THE MAGIC LAMP Kahambing, Jan Gresil de los Santos; Duque, Anne Dominique
International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS) Vol 3, No 1 (2019): September 2019
Publisher : Sanata Dharma University

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This study delves into the tale Aladdin and the Magic Lamp as the excerpt of the Middle Eastern folk tales collection One Thousand and One Nights rather than the popular Disney version. It problematizes the figure of Aladdin and rebrands him as an immoral ethicist as opposed to Disney hero who seeks strength within himself and the other text versions of him as a “changed” man. This problematizing essentially entails a critique of the Westernized moral figure and its basic ‘universal lesson’ in the text to argue his being immoral. To do this, the methodology of the paper follows from a philosophical reading that subjectivizes the protagonist into the question of ethics. Specifically, it takes from Žižek’s elaboration of the Nietzschean version of an immoral ethics that remains consistent with the fidelity to one’s desire. The paper shows how the plot reveals Aladdin’s immoral ethics that is founded on strength and constant activity but presupposing the voluntary knowledge and cleverness of his existential choice. To back this, the study finds three distinct features, namely: 1) disregard to authority, 2) love beyond good and evil, and 3) negative will to power.DOI: 10.24071/ijhs.2019.030108  
Co-Authors Duque, Anne Dominique