Why teaching art is teaching ethics / John Rethorst.
2023
N85 .R47 2023
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Title
Why teaching art is teaching ethics / John Rethorst.
Author
Rethorst, John, author.
ISBN
9783031195112 (electronic bk.)
3031195116 (electronic bk.)
9783031195105
3031195108
3031195116 (electronic bk.)
9783031195105
3031195108
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (164 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-031-19511-2 doi
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N85 .R47 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
707.1
Summary
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 relation between art and ethics. Written for the literate layperson, an academic or technical background is not necessary, so this book will be of interest not only to philosophers and educators, but to all who are concerned with what is good, and how to see it and teach it.
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Table of Contents
Intro
Foreword
Preface
Contents
1 Utility, Principle, Virtue
2 Particularism
3 Perception and Representation
4 Imagination and Metaphor
5 Aesthetic Illumination
6 Art and Truth
7 Literary Expression
8 Aristotle and Jane Austen
9 Directions
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
Foreword
Preface
Contents
1 Utility, Principle, Virtue
2 Particularism
3 Perception and Representation
4 Imagination and Metaphor
5 Aesthetic Illumination
6 Art and Truth
7 Literary Expression
8 Aristotle and Jane Austen
9 Directions
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index