ABSTRACT
When we consider the interface between moral agent and the moral world explored by the remaining novels, it becomes clear that an additional aspect poorly factored in the calculus of human nature is that of the psyche. Glanville Williams’ critique of the William Joyce case pillories the flagrant abuse of the rule of law, itself an interesting, if indirect comment upon the individual and ‘group’ motivations, the ‘collective’ psyche at work behind the institution of law. The divide between the rule of law and the law of the jungle is sometimes but opaquely veiled by institutional mechanisms. But the picture created by Greene and Bowen, Rebecca West and Hannah Arendt, projects the intimacy of connections between psyche and politics; the conflict inherent to the construction of the moral agent, and the phenomenon of such relatively unproblematic provenance in classical theory – free-will.
