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4 sie 2015 · Get to Know the Seven Literary Standards. Writer William J. Long developed the seven literary standards used to determine if a piece of writing is literary in 1909. The seven characteristics are artistry, suggestiveness, intellectual value, spiritual value, permanence, universality and style.
5 lis 2015 · When the value of something is self-evident and secure, it needs no audit or intellectual justification. We do not have collections of scholarly essays or polemical pamphlets on the importance of research into leukemia or waste-free nuclear fission.
1 sty 2009 · The articles in the first part of the volume investigate theories and concepts of values and ethical norms, exploring the complex interconnection between literature and values.
1 sie 2016 · In The Value of Literature, Rafe McGregor employs a unique approach - the combination of philosophical work on value theory and critical work on the relationship between form and content -...
13 sty 2017 · Does literature matter, and what can it do? These perennial questions find new urgency here amid the humanities’ current ‘crisis’ and literary studies’ ethical, narrative, cognitive, and affective turns.
This chapter first looks at the value and definition of art as it should and can be if ever it has moral value. The chapter asks the question why and how are artistic and literary activity morally valuable and excellent? For this question to merit an answer, two issues are addressed in the chapter.
In other words, intellectual virtues are qualities that make us excellent (and not defective) as thinkers, not (or not simply) as people in general. This bibliography provides an overview of philosophical work on the intellectual virtues.
