Literature and Moral Understanding: A Philosophical Essay on Ethics, Aesthetics, Education, and Culture

Literature and Moral Understanding: A Philosophical Essay on Ethics, Aesthetics, Education, and Culture

Author
Frank Palmer
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Language
English
Edition
1
Year
1992
Page
272
ISBN
0198242328,9780198242321
File Type
pdf
File Size
10.3 MiB

Recent philosophical discussion about the relation between fiction and reality pays little attention to our moral involvement with literature. Frank Palmer's purpose is to investigate how our appreciation of literary works calls upon and develops our capacity for moral understanding. He explores a wide range of philosophical questions about the relation of art to morality, and challenges theories that he regards as incompatible with a humane view of literary art. Palmer considers, in particular, the extent to which the values and moral concepts involved in our understanding of human beings can be said to enter into our understanding of, and response to, fictional characters. The scope of his discussion encompasses literary aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology, and he makes extensive reference to literary examples.

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