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Dustin Gish

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Open access Sep 2026

Justice, Prudence, and the Common Good: A Capital Dilemma in Herman Melville’s Billy Budd

This essay argues that Herman Melville’s Billy Budd should be read as a work of political philosophy whose central concern is Captain Vere’s “capital dilemma”: the conflict between natural justice and the obligations of political authority. Rather than treating Billy Budd as the principal focus of the novella, Melville...

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