San Antonio College Library

Ethics, Evil, and Fiction brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that offers original new insights for both. Its central aim is to enrich the domain of moral reflection, by showing the value of literary texts as sources of moral illumination. Colin McGinn starts by setting out an uncompromisingly realist ethical theory, arguing that morality is an area of objective truth and genuine knowledge. He goes on to address such subjects...

The author argues for the study of literature as a training ground for the kinds of thinking on which moral reasoning depends. The book combines postliberal narrative theology, especially Stanley Hauerwas's Christian ethics and Alasdair MacIntyre's idea of traditional inquiry, with recent scholarship in literature and ethics, including the work of Martha Nussbaum, J. Hillis Miller, Wayne Booth, Jeffrey Stout, and Richard Rorty. -- book cover.

"Why read Wordsworth's poetry--indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were never far from William Wordsworth's thoughts. He responded in rich and varied ways, in verse and in prose, in both well-known and more obscure writings. Wordsworth's Ethics is a comprehensive examination of the Romantic poet's work, delving into his desire to understand the source...

"The Moral Philosophy of John Steinbeck provides a range of highly readable essays exploring the philosophy and work of one of America's few Nobel Prize winning authors. These thirteen essays, written by experts in both philosophy and Steinbeck studies, examine almost all of Steinbeck's major works."--Jacket.