Klara and the Sun
, the latest novel by Nobel-prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, forces one to reckon with one's own anxieties about the future of emerging technologies and confront deep questions about ...the nature of dignity, existence, and humanity. The novel also provides one with complex characters and a speculative future through which to live new lives, experience novel worlds, and see through different eyes. At the same time, the novel’s world offers us an uncanny distance from our own, making us prone to pass judgments on the characters’ moral faults that we later come to recognize are also our own.
Sammendrag I artikkelen diskuteres Sara Stridsbergs debutroman Happy Sally (2004) med utgangspunkt i de tre begrepene historie, estetikk og etikk. Teoretisk fundert i narrativ psykologi og estetisk ...teori viser artikkelens to første deler henholdsvis hvordan historien og historiefortellingen spiller en sentral tematisk rolle i romanen, og hvordan romanen kan leses som en tematisering av vilkårene for å gripe og forstå fortiden, og av kunstens privilegerte rolle i så henseende. I siste del låner jeg perspektiver fra den såkalt etiske kritikken idet jeg diskuterer etiske aspekter ved romanens egen bruk av historiske elementer, og forholdet mellom begrepene estetikk og etikk.
Sammendrag I artikkelen diskuteres Sara Stridsbergs debutroman Happy Sally (2004) med utgangspunkt i de tre begrepene historie, estetikk og etikk. Teoretisk fundert i narrativ psykologi og estetisk ...teori viser artikkelens to første deler henholdsvis hvordan historien og historiefortellingen spiller en sentral tematisk rolle i romanen, og hvordan romanen kan leses som en tematisering av vilkårene for å gripe og forstå fortiden, og av kunstens privilegerte rolle i så henseende. I siste del låner jeg perspektiver fra den såkalt etiske kritikken idet jeg diskuterer etiske aspekter ved romanens egen bruk av historiske elementer, og forholdet mellom begrepene estetikk og etikk.
Article concerns problems of „new character” which appears in literature of the end of XX and the beginning of XXI centuries and is rooted in the phenomenon of young „generation of nobody” and show ...rich psychological portraits of protagonists. Contemporary Polish prose, which is not optimistic anymore, show anthropological sensitivity, is called a literature of initiation, present a young protagonists in a labyrinth of values, whose life seems to be suffering, they are lost in reality, lonely, looking for answers of difficult existential questions, looking for the true, friendship and love. Most significant literary examples which present problems mentioned above and which are rooted in the wide context of ethics – are works of Ewa Przybylska: Dzień kolibra (1997) i Dotyk motyla (2016) and Most na Missisipi (2012) and Barbara Kosmowska: Pozłacana rybka (2007),Sezon na zielone kasztany (2013) and Samotni.pl(2012). Most of these texts could be discussed also in educational perspective.
resumo A partir do romance Divórcio, de Ricardo Lísias, o artigo busca discutir o que este texto literário propõe a respeito da ética, tomando como referência o jornalismo, sobretudo o relacionamento ...entre as fontes e os profissionais da informação. Lísias mostra as relações quase obscenas entre as fontes, os comportamentos antiéticos dos jornalistas e avança sobre esta relação como metáfora do comportamento e do atual estágio da sociedade brasileira. O texto, para esta discussão, lança mão de questões teóricas sempre presentes em manuais de jornalismo e se vale de dois acontecimentos referenciais − o caso Watergate, nos Estados Unidos; e o Caso Collor de Mello, no Brasil − para mostrar os diferentes comportamentos adotados pelos jornalistas em uma e outra situação e sua aproximação com o atual contexto brasileiro.
This article tests Martha Nussbaum's assertion that a novel can be “a paradigm of moral activity” (1990: 148) and expands that claim beyond the boundaries Nussbaum is likely to have originally ...conceived, through a study of Lionel Shriver's controversial novel We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003). The article combines analysis of Shriver's narrative techniques and unorthodox moral argument with current clinical research, discussions of accountability in post-postmodern society, and Nussbaum's hopes for the place of fiction in such debates, particularly with regard to her distinction between the general and the particular in moral judgment. The article reveals how critical focus on violence in Shriver's novel has so far obscured Shriver's fierce and surprisingly optimistic ethical message. In addition to its astute anatomization of trauma, the novel offers readers a framework for envisioning rehabilitation from trauma that is both recuperative and generative. The process of mutual-reconstitution achieved by Shriver's characters challenges readers to reconfigure their expectations and assumptions; to engage with characters that court antipathy; and yet, to emerge from the experience profoundly humbled. Shriver thereby sets forth an existential model of significant importance to contemporary reformulations of notions of authentic self-becoming and of love's knowledge.
The connection between ethics and theological vision has become increasingly important for ethics as we better appreciate how the moral agent is embedded in a framework that affectively and ...intellectually shapes her moral reasoning. Moral reasoning is always reasoning within (that is, within a moral framework, a religious worldview, and/or a set of ideological commitments). A similar framing occurs in literature, which I refer to as its "horizon." A literary text's horizon comprises the theological and metaphysical commitments that are implied by the text and that the reader relies on to make sense of it. I suggest that there is a parallel between how moral frameworks and literary horizons operate in that both shape moral judgment. I argue that in using literature as a resource for ethics, the same contemporary currents that have led us to appreciate the embeddedness of moral reasoning should also encourage us to give more careful attention to the theological or metaphysical vision implied by a text. Such a "theoethical" reading of literature provides a richer understanding of particular moral goods and the interplay between those goods and ethical themes like agency, hope, and redemption. I substantiate this claim with a reading of William Blake's Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion.
Re-embedding Moral Agency Steck, Christopher
The Journal of religious ethics,
06/2013, Volume:
41, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
The connection between ethics and theological vision has become increasingly important for ethics as we better appreciate how the moral agent is embedded in a framework that affectively and ...intellectually shapes her moral reasoning. Moral reasoning is always reasoning within (that is, within a moral framework, a religious worldview, and/or a set of ideological commitments). A similar framing occurs in literature, which I refer to as its “horizon.” A literary text's horizon comprises the theological and metaphysical commitments that are implied by the text and that the reader relies on to make sense of it. I suggest that there is a parallel between how moral frameworks and literary horizons operate in that both shape moral judgment. I argue that in using literature as a resource for ethics, the same contemporary currents that have led us to appreciate the embeddedness of moral reasoning should also encourage us to give more careful attention to the theological or metaphysical vision implied by a text. Such a “theo‐ethical” reading of literature provides a richer understanding of particular moral goods and the interplay between those goods and ethical themes like agency, hope, and redemption. I substantiate this claim with a reading of William Blake's Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion.
The goal is to isolate points of philosophical interest in the preceding articles on narrative medical ethics in order to focus subsequent dialogue between the two disciplines. Ethics is an ...enterprise that has over the centuries developed a somewhat malleable structure, comprising characteristics, methods, lines of reasoning, rules, principles, assumptions, and arguments. This structure provides the framework within which many disciplines contribute to ethics through the exercise of their particular interests, skills, and methods. Challenging or changing the structural components requires arguments of a traditional sort appropriate to the discipline of ethics. Three tenets are proposed as comprising the “received view” or credo of the literature and ethics movement. Each is examined. Then the individual articles in this issue are explored to the end of ferreting out points that would be fruitful points of discussion between philosophy and literature folks pursuing their mutual interest in ethics.
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