The Wheel of Virtue: Art, Literature, and Moral Knowledge

Carroll, Noël

doi:10.1111/1540-6245.00048

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“…Narratives can be used to advance arguments by giving readers epistemic access to certain types of experience that can expand their moral and conceptual perspectives (Nussbaum 1990, Stump 2010, Carroll 2002, Currie 1995, John 1998, section 6 of this paper). But narratives that are presented as true have a persuasive power beyond fiction, as section 6.2 argues.…”

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“…Particularly when the remembered experience is of the psychological order of abuse, a person might not in the moment experience the full force of emotions appropriate to it. Yet emotions are keys to moral dimensions of reality (Nussbaum 1990, Currie 1995, Carroll 2002, and section 6), so suppressing them will hamper a person in understanding her experience when it occurs. Only much later, with time to process the experience, do appropriate and revealing emotions have the chance to develop (Freedman 2006;Goldie 2012, 55).…”

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“…20 These emotions can enhance our moral perception (Nussbaum 1990, Currie 1995, Carroll 2002, Stump 2010. Feeling empathy or compassion toward a character, for instance, can attune us to an injustice which she experiences and which we might otherwise have mislabeled.…”

Section: The Expository Advantages Of Narrativementioning

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“…2;Meyers 1993, 227-232;Meyers 2009;Code 2006;Freedman 2006;Stump 2010;Harding 2004;Nussbaum 1990;Carroll 2002;Currie 1995;Goldie 2012). My main aim is to understand and promote narrative argument as a philosophical form by appeal to a salutary example.…”

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Argument from Personal Narrative: A Case Study of Rachel Moran's Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution

Dormandy¹

2016

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Personal narratives can let us in on aspects of reality which we have not experienced for ourselves, and are thus important sources for philosophical reflection. Yet a venerable tradition in mainstream philosophy has little room for arguments which rely on personal narrative, on the grounds that narratives are particular and testimonial, whereas philosophical arguments should be systematic and transparent. I argue that narrative arguments are an important form of philosophical argument. Their testimonial aspects witness to novel facets of reality, but their argumentative aspects help us to understand those facets for ourselves. My argument takes the form of a case study of the exemplary narrative argument penned by Rachel Moran, a former prostitute who uses her experiences to argue that prostitution amounts to sexual abuse. We'll see that narrative arguments can enjoy expository advantages over analytic ones.

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Argument from Personal Narrative: A Case Study of Rachel Moran's Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution

Dormandy¹

2016

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“…Carroll's (2002) Rowlands (2003), whereas Goodenaugh (2005:1-28) distinguishes between films that merely illustrate philosophical themes from films that can act as philosophical in themselves. Those who reject concretization (Mullarkey 2009: 15-28, 123ff, Barnett 2007 argue that the latter horn of the distinction itself collapses into being a mere cinematic illustration of philosophical themes.…”

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Film as Thought Experiment: A Happy-Go-Lucky Case?

Kroustallis

2012

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Philosophical aesthetics and cognitive science

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Philosophical aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which explores issues having to do with art, beauty, and related phenomena. Philosophers have often been skeptical about the place of empirical investigation in aesthetics. However, in recent years many philosophical aestheticians have turned to cognitive science to enrich their understanding of their subject matter. Cognitive scientists have, in turn, been inspired by work in philosophical aesthetics. This essay focuses on a representative subset of the areas in which there has been fruitful dialog between philosophical aestheticians and cognitive scientists. We start with some general topics in philosophical aesthetics—the definition of art and the epistemic status of aesthetic judgments. We then move on to discussing research concerning the roles that imagination and perception play in our aesthetic engagement. We conclude with a discussion of the emerging field of experimental philosophical aesthetics. WIREs Cogn Sci 2018, 9:e1445. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1445 This article is categorized under: Philosophy > Value

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The Wheel of Virtue: Art, Literature, and Moral Knowledge

Cited by 143 publications

References 4 publications

Argument from Personal Narrative: A Case Study of Rachel Moran's Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution

Argument from Personal Narrative: A Case Study of Rachel Moran's Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution

Film as Thought Experiment: A Happy-Go-Lucky Case?

Philosophical aesthetics and cognitive science

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