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This book examines the notion of honor with an eye to dissecting
its intellectual demise and with the aim of making a case for
honor's rehabilitation. Western intellectuals acknowledge honor's
influence, but they lament its authority. For Western democratic
societies to embrace honor, it must be compatible with social
ideals like liberty, equality, and fraternity. Cunningham details a
conception of honor that can do justice to these ideals. This
vision revolves around three elements-character (being),
relationships (relating), and activities and accomplishment
(doing). Taken together, these elements articulate a shared
aspiration for excellence. We can turn the tables on traditional
ills of honor-serious problems of gender, race, and class-by
forging a vision of honor that rejects lives predicated on power
and oppression.
This book examines the notion of honor with an eye to dissecting
its intellectual demise and with the aim of making a case for
honor's rehabilitation. Western intellectuals acknowledge honor's
influence, but they lament its authority. For Western democratic
societies to embrace honor, it must be compatible with social
ideals like liberty, equality, and fraternity. Cunningham details a
conception of honor that can do justice to these ideals. This
vision revolves around three elements-character (being),
relationships (relating), and activities and accomplishment
(doing). Taken together, these elements articulate a shared
aspiration for excellence. We can turn the tables on traditional
ills of honor-serious problems of gender, race, and class-by
forging a vision of honor that rejects lives predicated on power
and oppression.
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings
together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers
into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the
relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich
descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a
valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday
people to imagine and confront the ultimate questions of life? Do
the human activities of storytelling and complex moral
decision-making have a deep connection? What are the moral
responsibilities of the artist, critic, and reader? What can
religious perspectives_from Catholic to Protestant to
Mormon_contribute to literary criticism? What do we mean when we
talk about ethical criticism and how does this differ from the
common notion of censorship? Thirty well known contributors reflect
on these questions including: literary theorists Marshall Gregory,
James Phelan, and Wayne Booth; philosophers Martha Nussbaum,
Richard Hart, and Nina Rosenstand; and authors John Updike, Charles
Johnson, Flannery O'Connor, and Bernard Malamud. Divided into four
sections, with introductory matter and questions for discussion,
this accessible anthology represents the most crucial work today
exploring the interdisciplinary connections among literature,
religion and philosophy.
A childhood fascination of shipwrecks and a meeting with Millvina
Dean, the youngest Titanic survivor, inspired the author to meet
more survivors of both the titanic and other disasters. They are
the people who tell the stories here - all tales of overcoming
adversity and personal loss and living and moving on in the
aftermath.
After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and
everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this
ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some
of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor's meaning and
its compatibility with liberalism, democracy, and modernity.
Contributors-representing philosophy, sociology, political science,
history, psychology, leadership studies, and military
science-examine honor past to present, from masculine and feminine
perspectives, and in North American, European, and African
contexts. Topics include the role of honor in the modern military,
the effects of honor on our notions of the dignity and "purity" of
women, honor as a quality of good statesmen and citizens, honor's
role in international relations and community norms, and how
honor's egalitarian and elitist aspects intersect with democratic
and liberal regimes.
After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and
everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this
ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some
of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor's meaning and
its compatibility with liberalism, democracy, and modernity.
Contributors-representing philosophy, sociology, political science,
history, psychology, leadership studies, and military
science-examine honor past to present, from masculine and feminine
perspectives, and in North American, European, and African
contexts. Topics include the role of honor in the modern military,
the effects of honor on our notions of the dignity and "purity" of
women, honor as a quality of good statesmen and citizens, honor's
role in international relations and community norms, and how
honor's egalitarian and elitist aspects intersect with democratic
and liberal regimes.
"The Heart of What Matters" shows that literature has a powerful
and unique role to play in understanding life's deepest ethical
problems. Anthony Cunningham provides a rigorous critique of
Kantian ethics, which has enjoyed a preeminent place in moral
philosophy in the United States, arguing that it does not do
justice to the reality of our lives. He demonstrates how fine
literature can play an important role in honing our capacity to see
clearly and choose wisely as he develops a moral philosophy that
engages with our intimate emotional concerns. Written in an
accessible style and drawing from a provocative body of
contemporary literature, this book shows how moral philosophy can
reach a far wider audience than it has.
In part one of this book, Cunningham sketches out the theoretical
basis for a redefined conception of moral philosophy. In part two,
he engages in extended analyses of novels that address significant
life and character issues, specifically Kazuo Ishiguro's "The
Remains of the Day, " Toni Morrison's "Beloved, " and Zora Neale
Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "Seraph on the
Suwanee." Cunningham shows exactly how works like these can inform
moral philosophy. Drawing from film, history, psychology, and other
social sciences in addition to literature, this book adds to the
growing number of works that use literature for ethical analysis
and to the growing controversy over Kantian ethics.
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings
together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers
into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the
relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich
descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a
valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday
people to imagine and confront the ultimate questions of life? Do
the human activities of storytelling and complex moral
decision-making have a deep connection? What are the moral
responsibilities of the artist, critic, and reader? What can
religious perspectives-from Catholic to Protestant to
Mormon-contribute to literary criticism? What do we mean when we
talk about ethical criticism and how does this differ from the
common notion of censorship? Thirty well known contributors reflect
on these questions including: literary theorists Marshall Gregory,
James Phelan, and Wayne Booth; philosophers Martha Nussbaum,
Richard Hart, and Nina Rosenstand; and authors John Updike, Charles
Johnson, Flannery O'Connor, and Bernard Malamud. Divided into four
sections, with introductory matter and questions for discussion,
this accessible anthology represents the most crucial work today
exploring the interdisciplinary connections among literature,
religion and philosophy.
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