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An aesthetician in the sense of Kierkegaard, Humbert wants to savour life without being limited by moral rules. Any writer might find himself reflected by the myth of Don Juan, identifiable with the eternal seducer of the reader. Lolita is a real presence, not a Humbertian alter-ego. Humbert the Seducer yearns to be seduced. His existential game can furnish things for analysis to Humbert the Casuist provided that he has a counterpart - the game of Lolita, less spiritualized, less intellectual, but closer to the generic notion of game. Fluctuating between life and death, the game of Don Juan longs to explore the other type of game, the active one. The game that resents reality (the imaginative game) is challenged by the game that bravely assumes it (active). A perennial Manichaeism between these disjunctive components renders the necessary tension to any game- ultimately a result of two extreme polarities playing against each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Reviews the book 'The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning,' by Albert R. Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin.

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