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The Enigma of Good and Evil: The Moral Sentiment in Literature

Publication year: 2005

ISBN: 978-1-4020-3576-0

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At the roots of these questions lies human experience which ought to be appropriately clarified before entering into speculative abstractions of the ethical theories and precepts. Literature, which in its very gist, dwells upon disentangling in multiple perspective the peripeteia of our life-experience offers us a unique field of source-material for moral and ethical investigations.Literature brings preeminently to light the Moral Sentiment which pervades our life with others -- our existence tout court. Being modulated through the course of our experiences the Moral Sentiment sustains the very sense of literature and of personal human life


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jean-Paul Sartre, Moral, aesthetics, concept, ethics, hermeneutics, language, oral discourse phenomenology