ABSTRACT
Right from the beginning (that is, in the period 1904-6) Keynes was interested in moral dilemmas which are typical of ancient Greek tragedy and classical drama. In the first section I will examine the evidence of the early influences of tragedy upon Keynes and the main themes of tragedy in which he was interested; Keynes’s tragic view of ethics and aesthetics will be investigated in the next four sections; finally, Keynes’s situations of moral and rational conflicts and dilemmas will be considered in the last four sections.
