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How Literature Can be a Thought Experiment: Alternatives to and Elaborations of Original Accounts
In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 1–19 (2009-04-17)
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how literature can be a thought experiment – relationship between literature and moral philosophy reflective thinking paradigms of conduct Aristotelian ethical perspective – seeing complex concrete reality in a highly lucid and richly responsive way literature – thought experiment which articulates hypothetical cases, elicits moral responses, and allows readers to test moral intuitions Jamesian approach – encourages clear and disambiguating alliance between literary works best company – “is the company of clever, well‐informed people, who have a great deal of conversation” interpretation of Austen – provide most satisfying and complete picture of insights her works convey
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