Paulson’s literary tour of sin and evil over the past two hundred years provides not only a historical perspective but also new ways of thinking about important issues that characterize our own era of violence, intolerance, and war.
What was the ethical perspective of modernist literature? How did Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett represent ethical issues and develop their moral ideas? Lee Oser argues that thinking about human nature restores a perspective on modernist literature that has been lost. He offers detailed discussions of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics to illuminate close readings of major modernist texts. For Oser, the reception of Aristotle is crucial to the modernist moral project, which he defines as the effort to transform human nature through the use of art.
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Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy is a detailed portrayal of the dark side of the American Dream — the story of what can happen when an ordinary man's desire for wealth and status overwhelms his moral sense. It is one of the greatest American novels of any style or period.
"Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel offer a timely, important, and practical personal guidance system that anyone in the business world would do well to adopt. The world of business would be vastly improved if Moral Intelligence became required reading."
In the first edition of this text, Moshman (University of Nebraska- Lincoln) provided a constructivist synthesis of the literature of cognitive, moral, and identity development, from classic universalist theories through the more pluralistic research of the late 20th century. In this second edition, he develops his conceptualization of advanced psychological development in adolescence and, in a new chapter, proposes a conception of rational moral identity as a developmental ideal. The book concludes with a chapter on the importance of intellectual freedom in secondary education. No prior knowledge of psychology is assumed.
