Abstract:

I argue that many claims regarding the relations between philosophy and literature basically rehabilitate the old justifications of rhetoric. I then address the following challenges: (1) how to justify the idea that an appeal to "one’s whole being" (rather than one’s argumentative capacities) forms an advantage in moral philosophy; (2) how to explicate moral growth through art in the absence of idealistic and theological frameworks that explained such edification in the past; (3) how to formulate an error theory that can distinguish between reasoning and reasoning rationally when one admits the suggestive capacities of art and rhetoric into a mode of inquiry (philosophy) aimed at enhanced moral understanding.

Notes:

Cover Date: 2006.Source Info: 79, 75-98. Language: English. Journal Announcement: 40-4. Subject: CRITICISM; EMOTION; EMPATHY; ETHICS; LITERATURE. Update Code: 20150211.