A virtual event with Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut
We often conceive of ethical decision as a matter of reasoning about rules. In recent years, however, writers on ethics have increasingly stressed emotional responses to stories as the core of our ethical decisions. We also tend to assume that particular cultures share ethical attitudes internally, even as they differ greatly from one another in external comparisons. Overviewing some of the arguments and conclusions of his book, Literature and Moral Feeling (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming ), Hogan argues that moral decision is indeed primarily a matter of emotions and stories. Moreover, cross-culturally recurring narratives define the core set of ethical alternatives generally accepted across cultural traditions. These traditions, then, differ principally in emphasis and elaboration, the fundamental ethical alternatives being found within rather between cultures.
For more information about this event, contact Mary Gibaldi (.4).
Zoom information
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- Meeting ID: 923 7338 4982
- Password: 158706
