Literature, the Emotions, and Ethics |
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| Author:
| Asher, Kenneth |
| ISBN: | 978-1-107-18595-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2017 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $113.00 |
Book Description:
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By exploring the history of moral philosophy, Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions shows how literature - novels, poetry, and drama - can each contribute to the crucial emotional understanding in ethics, addressing the issue of what literature can contribute to our ethical awareness that philosophy cannot.
By exploring the history of moral philosophy, Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions shows how literature - novels, poetry, and drama - can each contribute to the crucial emotional understanding in ethics, addressing the issue of what literature can contribute to our ethical awareness that philosophy cannot.