In the last two posts I talked about how even though many of us love The Lord of the Rings, there is a growing gap between our admiration of the characters, and our understanding of them.
I may be misreading, but I get the implication from this essay that the virtue ethics of Tolkien are more valuable than the utilitarianism of Herbert. I could maybe believe that the virtue ethics of Tolkien are more important right now, for the modern era, when that sort of thinking and behaving has relatively faded. But I think generally speaking they're both equally valuable. We should all want to be like Aragorn, whenever possible, and make hard decisions like Paul, when needed.
I may be misreading, but I get the implication from this essay that the virtue ethics of Tolkien are more valuable than the utilitarianism of Herbert. I could maybe believe that the virtue ethics of Tolkien are more important right now, for the modern era, when that sort of thinking and behaving has relatively faded. But I think generally speaking they're both equally valuable. We should all want to be like Aragorn, whenever possible, and make hard decisions like Paul, when needed.