The Oresteia

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“…In particular I consider Nussbaum and Kierkegaard's rather different responses to the classic example of an anguished choice in Aeschylus' Agamemnon (Aeschylus, 2002).…”

Section: N Uss Baum Kierk Eg a Ard And The Primac Y Of Anti Cipated ...mentioning

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Moral courage and manager‐regret

Duckworth¹

2022

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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The notion of moral courage in managerial practice has gained considerable attention over the last two decades. In an influential paper, Sekerka et al. (2009), drawing principally on ideas in positive organisational psychology (POS) (Cameron et al., 2003) and appreciative enquiry (AE) (Cooperrider & Whitney, 2000), focus on moral courage as a central aspect of 'managerial competency' (Sekerka et al., 2009, p. 5). Whereas POS and AE emphasise the capacity of the virtues to energise organisations, Sekerka et al. (2009) single

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“…In particular I consider Nussbaum and Kierkegaard's rather different responses to the classic example of an anguished choice in Aeschylus' Agamemnon (Aeschylus, 2002).…”

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Moral courage and manager‐regret

Duckworth¹

2022

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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“…If you cannot even imagine that Achilles might be required, morally, to take revenge upon Hector, then you will not be able to understand why Achilles does what he does there at all. Likewise, if, in reading Aeschylus’ Oresteia (2003), you cannot imagine how it could seem right to Clytemnestra to kill Agamemnon in revenge for Iphigenia, or how it can seem right to Orestes to kill Clytemnestra in revenge for Agamemnon, you will miss entirely the moral force of the trilogy. That is not because the Oresteia is unambiguously in favour of violent revenge as means of justice, but because it is not unambiguously for or against it.…”

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Sympathy for the Devil: The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance, the Role of Fiction in Moral Thought, and the Limits of the Imagination

Dain¹

2020

Philosophy

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What are the limits of the imagination in morality? What role does fiction play in moral thought? My starting point in addressing these questions is Tamar Szabo Gendler's ‘puzzle of imaginative resistance’, the problem of explaining the special difficulties we seem to encounter in imagining to be right what we take to be morally wrong (or vice versa) in fiction, and Gendler's claim that those difficulties are due to our unwillingness to imagine these things, rather than our inability to imagine what is logically or conceptually impossible. Using a wide range of examples, I argue that there is no puzzle of imaginative resistance and that to think that there is such a puzzle is to miss almost entirely the role fiction plays in moral thought. That, however, does not mean that there are no limits to what we can imagine in morality. In fact, I argue, the imagination is limited in morality, as elsewhere, by what is logically or conceptually possible. Together, those claims suggest that fiction and the imagination play a fundamental role in shaping our conception of the moral landscape. The paper concludes by drawing some of the consequences of these views for the nature of moral thought.

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“…The Eumenides seemed to tell the tale of the triumph of the new young Apollonian and sunlit Olympians, advocates of reason, over the old haggish underworld goddesses. The Olympians promised to bring with them a new system of purification (Grene, 1989), a new subtler set of legal considerations as to guilt and innocence, one that would acknowledge, quite rationally after all, extenuating circumstances.…”

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War and Nature in Classical Athens and Today: Demoting and Restoring the Underground Goddesses

Schavrien

2010

IJTS

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The Oresteia

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Moral courage and manager‐regret

Moral courage and manager‐regret

Sympathy for the Devil: The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance, the Role of Fiction in Moral Thought, and the Limits of the Imagination

War and Nature in Classical Athens and Today: Demoting and Restoring the Underground Goddesses

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