In our time, philosophers have tried to distance themselves from stories and narrative, while literary critics have tried to divorce themselves from morals. Morals and stories have been separated as a result, and their obvious connections ignored. Tobin Sieber's essay insists that morals and stories are inseparable and that literature should have a place in our thinking about the world. The book holds that "literature is a form of knowledge about moral character and how it fits into the social world", and that "we may use stories to build character and to transform it".
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Höhe: 158 mm
Breite: 127 mm
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978-0-231-07846-7 (9780231078467)
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Part 1 Morals with stories: a childhood memory; life stories; the case against linguistic ethics; the moral of the story. Part 2 Stories with morals: the place of ethics in Homer; Plato's tragedy; the allegory of the cave-dwellers; Kant's character; Kant and the origins of totalitarianism; Jane Austen and comic virture; counting with Tolstoy; Chinua Acheba and proverbian wisdom. Part 3 Conclusions: between a rock and a hard place; a parting shot.
