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Ethics, evil, and fiction / Colin McGinn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGinn, Colin, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Ethics in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 186 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bringing together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that offers new insights for both, McGinn examines the relations between morality, art and beauty. He shows the value of literary texts as sources of moral illumination.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The Scope of Moral Philosophy 2. Goodness 3. Knowledge of Goodness 4. The Evil Character 5. Beauty of Soul 6. The Picture: Dorian Gray 7. Who is Frankenstein's Monster? 8. Conclusion: Stories and Morals
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-181) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-98092-7
- 9786611980924
- 0-19-151918-9
- OCLC:
- 252553337
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