Metaphor and Moral Experience
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 July 2000
- ISBN 9780198240105
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 242x163x26 mm
- Weight 694 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A. E. Denham examines the ways in which our engagement with literary art, and metaphorical discourse in particular, informs our moral beliefs. She considers to what extent moral and metaphorical discourses are capable of truth or falsehood, warrant or justification, and how it is that we understand these discourses. Metaphor and Moral Experience offers a fresh view of the nature of the moral and the metaphorical, and the relations between art and morality.
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A. E. Denham examines the parallels between moral and metaphorical discourse, and the ways in which our engagement with literary art, and metaphorical discourse in particular, informs our moral beliefs. She suggests that there are three ways in which one's beliefs can be improved: if more of them are true, if more of them are warranted or justified, or if the warrant or justification for some of them is strengthened. So she considers whether and how such improvements can be made to moral beliefs, and what role metaphor can play.
It is an integral aim of the work to discern to what extent moral and metaphorical discourse deserve to be regarded as cognitive at all. This involves investigating to what extent such discourses are capable of truth or falsehood, warrant or justification, and how it is that we understand moral judgements and metaphorical expressions. This investigation is founded on an account of the nature of value and of our experience of value.
Metaphor and Moral Experience offers a fresh view of the nature of the moral and the metaphorical, and thus throws light on the relations between art and morality, and on our understanding of both.
A valuable contribution to the literature on meta-ethics, metaphor, and the inter-relationship of aesthetics and ethics, one that advances the debate on many fronts.
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Art and Morality (Tolstoy and Plato): An Historical Introduction; 2. Values and Valuing; 3. Aspects of Value; 4. Converging on Values: Cognition and Sentiment; 5. The Genesis of Moral Experience; 6. Subjective Conceptions; 7. Identifying Metaphor; 8. Metaphor and Cognition: Two Theories; 9. Metaphor and Judgements of Experience; Bibliography; Index.
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