TY - BOOK ID - 34503353 TI - The enigma of good and evil; the moral sentiment in literature PY - 2005 VL - 85 SN - 1402035756 9781402035753 1402035764 9781402035760 9786610611355 1429408901 1280611359 PB - Dordrecht Springer DB - UniCat KW - Good and evil in literature KW - Phenomenology in literature KW - Literature and morals KW - Ethics in literature KW - Literature KW - Philosophy KW - Good and evil in literature - Congresses. KW - Phenomenology in literature - Congresses. KW - Literature and morals - Congresses. KW - Ethics in literature - Congresses. KW - Literature - Philosophy - Congresses. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:34503353 AB - Striking toward peace and harmony the human being is ceasely torn apart in personal, social, national life by wars, feuds, inequities and intimate personal conflicts for which there seems to be no respite. Does the human condition in interaction with others imply a constant adversity? Or, is this conflict owing to an interior or external factor of evil governing our attitudes and conduct toward the other person? To what criteria should I refer for appreciation, judgment, direction concerning my attitudes and my actions as they bear on the well-being of others? At the roots of these questions lies human experience which ought to be appropriately clarified before entering into speculative abstractions of the ethical theories and precepts. Literature, which in its very gist, dwells upon disentangling in multiple perspective the peripeteia of our life-experience offers us a unique field of source-material for moral and ethical investigations. Literature brings preeminently to light the Moral Sentiment which pervades our life with others -- our existence tout court. Being modulated through the course of our experiences the Moral Sentiment sustains the very sense of literature and of personal human life (Tymieniecka). ER -