THE JUDICIAL VIRTUES AND THE NOVEL A RURAL J UDGE BY PEDRO PRADO. NOTES FOR AN IDEOLOGICAL PROBLEM

Abstract

The article reviews the problem of moral assessment of the judiciary from the relationship between law and literature. Develop Alisdair MacIntyre’s posi-tion on the virtues and reviews how the Chilean novel A rural judge of Pedro Prado can be considered a form of expression macintyriano point of view. End, showing how any moral evaluation of the judicial role is, after all, the manifestation of an ideology.