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I ask my own heart, I put to myself this question: "If thou couldst by a mere wish kill a fellow-creature in China, and inherit his fortune in Europe, with the supernatural conviction that the fact would never be known, wouldst thou consent to form such a wish?"
90:. Rastignac asks Bianchon if he recalls the paradox, to which Bianchon first replies that he is "at thirty-third mandarin," but then states that he would refuse to take an unknown man's life regardless of circumstance. Rastignac wrongly attributes the quote to 365:. Mysterious Miraculous Mandarin: Origins, Literary Paternity, Implications in Ethics // Revue de littirature comparee 40, no. 4 (1966): 497–525, 447: 371:
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are separated by physical, cultural, or other distance, especially as facilitated by
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The paradox is famously used to foreshadow the character development of the
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Le Mandarin, Paris, P. Ollendorff, 1895‐1896 (réimprimé sous le nom
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Index

ethical
parable
moral obligations
moral punishment
moral disengagement
moral agents
globalization
Chateaubriand
The Genius of Christianity
arriviste
Eugène de Rastignac
Balzac
Père Goriot
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Mandarin (novel)
Button, Button
Richard Matheson
The Box (2009 film)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Ring of Gyges


"Le retour du "paradoxe du mandarin" dans la construction de l'arriviste littÊraire au XIXe siècle"
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10.4467/23538953CE.19.010.10695


"De Diderot Ă  Balzac, le paradoxe du mandarin"
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