The Heart of What Matters: The Role for Literature in Moral PhilosophyUniversity of California Press, 11 sept 2001 - 306 páginas The Heart of What Matters shows that literature has a powerful and unique role to play in understanding life's deepest ethical problems. Anthony Cunningham provides a rigorous critique of Kantian ethics, which has enjoyed a preeminent place in moral philosophy in the United States, arguing that it does not do justice to the reality of our lives. He demonstrates how fine literature can play an important role in honing our capacity to see clearly and choose wisely as he develops a moral philosophy that engages with our intimate emotional concerns. Written in an accessible style and drawing from a provocative body of contemporary literature, this book shows how moral philosophy can reach a far wider audience than it has. In part one of this book, Cunningham sketches out the theoretical basis for a redefined conception of moral philosophy. In part two, he engages in extended analyses of novels that address significant life and character issues, specifically Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Seraph on the Suwanee. Cunningham shows exactly how works like these can inform moral philosophy. Drawing from film, history, psychology, and other social sciences in addition to literature, this book adds to the growing number of works that use literature for ethical analysis and to the growing controversy over Kantian ethic |
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... human experience . Any ethical theory that ignores or deforms what we are really like in favor of a fanciful philo- sophical image can harm us if we pay any close attention . On the other hand , neither should moral philosophers simply ...
... human experience . Any ethical theory that ignores or deforms what we are really like in favor of a fanciful philo- sophical image can harm us if we pay any close attention . On the other hand , neither should moral philosophers simply ...
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... human life and char- acter in the process . For instance , for all its welcome appeals to the basic dignity we all share , Kantian ethics errs by fitting everything that matters morally under the umbrella of respect for equally worthy ...
... human life and char- acter in the process . For instance , for all its welcome appeals to the basic dignity we all share , Kantian ethics errs by fitting everything that matters morally under the umbrella of respect for equally worthy ...
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... human life and who are willing to reflect about how literature might help us discern the same . If professional philosophers alone fit this description , then so be it . But I believe that moral philosophy done right would enjoy a far ...
... human life and who are willing to reflect about how literature might help us discern the same . If professional philosophers alone fit this description , then so be it . But I believe that moral philosophy done right would enjoy a far ...
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... can speak to the heart of what matters in a human life and character . With all this in mind , let us begin by considering the most basic aim of ethics . In Memory of Robert Everett Reuman When he shall die Introduction 5.
... can speak to the heart of what matters in a human life and character . With all this in mind , let us begin by considering the most basic aim of ethics . In Memory of Robert Everett Reuman When he shall die Introduction 5.
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Índice
PART ONE | 9 |
The Aim of Ethical Theory | 20 |
Reading for Life | 69 |
PART TWO | 95 |
A Vulnerable Life Finding Forgiveness in Beloved | 140 |
Licking Out the Pots in Sorrows Kitchen Zora Neale Hurston on Love | 226 |
Notes | 283 |
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Página 7 - Romeo, and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
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