| 书目名称 | Why Teaching Art Is Teaching Ethics | | 编辑 | John Rethorst | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Considers in detail why art is, as Plato thought, the nearest clue to ethics.Discusses in detail how literature can provide moral illumination.Brings traditional and current thinking in both philosoph | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This exhaustively-researched, carefully-focused book asks whether imagination, emotion and art can enlighten our sense of right and wrong, looking at this question through the lens of moral philosophy with contributions from cognitive science, psychology and neurology..If moral thinking is simply logical reasoning or following God-given law, why did the poet Shelley say that “the great instrument of moral good is the imagination”? Why does ethical reasoning tend towards absolutes: something is either right or wrong, period, while a thoughtful minority values the “priority of the particular” – that unique aspects of a situation may come closer to the heart of the matter than any general rules could? Are emotions, as many philosophers in history have theorized, only a distraction from the clear perception of duty, or do feelings add something important, even critical, to how we judge good and bad, right and wrong? Can great works of art and literature embody imagination, the particular, and emotions to illuminate human life in ways crucial to ethical thinking?.This book introduces an original idea in philosophy, “moral density,” which for the first time elucidates the profound relat | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | Morals; Ethics; Art; Literature; Aesthetics | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19511-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-19513-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-19511-2 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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