First of all, the thesis looks at Martha Nussbaum's arguments for
moral perception. According to Nussbaum, literature can teach us
moral perception, which she shows to be of great importance in our
ability to be moral creatures. This moral perception involves the
ability to see the intricate details of people and the moral
situations that they face.
Second of all, the thesis examines a combination of authors including
Alison Jaggar, Naomi Scheman, Martha Nussbaum, Audre Lorde, Dorothy
Allison, and Jean-Paul Sartre that shows us yet more possible ways in
which literature can help us improve morally. Taken together, they
show that literature can help bring us to better understand our
emotions, and that developing emotionally in this way can lead to
moral development.
These examples help outline some interesting ways in which literature
can help us improve morally by providing us with knowledge that is
not propositional in nature.
This thesis seeks to explore literature's role in moral epistemology.
The intention here is to explain some ways in which literature can
help us improve morally, with particular attention to its ability to
provide us with non-propositional knowledge. Of special importance
here is how the aesthetic aspects of literature contribute to
providing us with this non-propositional knowledge. This thesis
explores these issues by examining two examples of ways that
literature can have an influence on our moral improvement by giving
us access to non-propositional knowledge.
Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University at Kingston (Canada), 2003.
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