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Ethics are often considered to be science of studying morality (Figar and Dordevic, 2016) and rules of moral values that is very helpful in making decisions (Tamunomiebi, and Ehior, 2019).
1 sty 2009 · The essays in Literature and Values explore a series of interlinking questions regarding the relationship between values and literature. Where do ethics and aesthetics intersect and to what...
argues that literature is a historically contingent presentation of ethics and morality and that reading literature helps human beings to reap moral enlightenment and thus make better ethical choices.
Three literary examples are explored, to show how vocabulary, syntax, implicature, and tone, contribute to the emergence of moral salience. A consequence drawn is that the ethical stance readers take to a scene or incident is partially shaped by the narrative modes of its presentation.
Works of art, and especially works of literature, are the embodi- ment of values-the values in question being, not aesthetic, but (usually) moral. The work manifests the moral outlook and quality of its creator, and evokes a moral response in the reader.
Three literary examples are explored, to show how vocabulary, syntax, implicature, and tone, contribute to the emergence of moral salience. A consequence drawn is that the ethical stance readers take to a scene or incident is partially shaped by the narrative modes of its presentation.
THE EXPLANATORY AMBITIONS OF MORAL PRINCIPLES. Selim Berker Harvard University. Abstract: Moral properties are explained by other properties. And moral principles tell us about moral properties. How are these two ideas related?
