Issues of Morality in Cinema

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This paper discusses the issue of a moral person in the films "AI" and "Solaris." The paper looks at whether the characters in each film, David and Rheya, are moral beings or just a higher form of an artificially intelligent mechanical being.

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"At issue herein is the question of whether or not two characters presented in contemporary film are actual moral persons as opposed to some higher form of artificially intelligent mechanical being. The characters are David, the robotic child in Steven Spielberg's "AI" and Rheya in Andrei Tarkovsky's and James Cameron's "Solaris". It will be argued that, if one defines moral personhood as the capacity to recognize moral choices and to choose morally good' alternative behaviors, both of these characters represent a humanoid-like morality that is..."

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