Literature and moral understanding : a philosophical essay on ethics, aesthetics, education, and culture / Frank Palmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palmer, Frank, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy--20th century.

Literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature and morals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 259 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Philosophical essay on ethics, aesthetics, education and culture

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can we be morally concerned with fiction? What does our experience of literature contribute to our capacity for moral understanding? This study of the relation of art to morality presents a defence of the humane value of art and explores the moral dimension of culture.

Contents:

1. Fictional Persons and Fictional Worlds. Fictional Persons. Fictional Existence. Possible Worlds. Fictional Worlds

2. Fiction Versus Fantasy, Pretence, and Make-Believe. Games and Language-Games. Make-Believe as Fantasy. Imagination

3. The Moral Attitudes. Deeds and Doers. Moral Attitudes as Mere Feelings. Blame as Accountancy or Record-Keeping. Difficulties with this Argument. Facts and Values. The Human World

4. Moral Responses to Fictional Characters. Radford's Argument. Weston's Argument

5. Readers and Spectators. Understanding, Emotion, and Moral Response. Fictional Narrator and Implied Reader. Access to Characters and the Form of our Attitudes. The Myth of the Disappearing Author

6. Life in Art. Truth in Art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-80972-8

9786610809721

OCLC:

1027163204