Intro to Ethics of Literature

Professor Kozlowski Lectures · Jan 4, 2023 · 1h 35m

Professor Kozlowski begins our discussion of the ethics of literature with a simple question: Is Speaking Ethical? The answer may be simple, but the implementation, and the study of how a work of literature can affect us - for something as simple as its entertainment value, for something as abstract as its beauty, or for something as profound as the imposition of a new ideological perspective - is endlessly complicated. Yet many thinkers have weighed in on these complicated effects, and even gone so far as to suggest that some works are upright and morally-nourishing, while others are…