Morals & stories
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Morals & stories
Columbia University Press, c1992
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Morals and stories
Available at 9 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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".
Table of Contents
- 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.
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