Literature and moral understanding a philosophical essay on ethics, aesthetics, education and culture

How can we be morally concerned with fiction? What does our experience of literature contribute to our capacity for moral understanding? This study of the relation of art to morality presents a defence of the humane value of art and explores the moral dimension of culture

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Palmer, Frank
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 1992, 1992
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:How can we be morally concerned with fiction? What does our experience of literature contribute to our capacity for moral understanding? This study of the relation of art to morality presents a defence of the humane value of art and explores the moral dimension of culture
Physical Description:xii, 259 p.
ISBN:9780191680441
0191680443