The good wife and philosophy : temptations of Saint Alicia / edited by Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray and Robert Arp.

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PHILOSOPHY. In "The Good Wife and Philosophy," fifteen philosophers look at the deeper issues raised by this stirring TV drama. "The Good Wife" gives us courtroom battles in the tradition of "Perry Mason," with the added dimension of a political intrigue and a tormented personal story. We witness the interplay between common morality and legal correctness; sometimes following one violates the other. Lawyers operate within the law and within legal ethics, yet routinely do harmful things in pursuit of their clients' interests. The adversarial system leads to such strategies as stringing out a case to exhaust the other side's resources and bringing suits ostensibly because of wrongdoing by defendants but really to curtail the defendants as a competitive threat to some important client's interest.