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Moral Philosophical Approach

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

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If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Moral Lessons or Values Taught at Different Stages

Advantages VS Disadvantages

Children

  • kindness
  • sharing is caring
  • manners (be polite)

Teenager

  • do not gossip
  • treat others the way you want to be treated
  • self love
  • education is the key
  • respect

Adult

  • compassion
  • forgiveness
  • love
  • hard work

Advantages

  • useful when investigating themes and motifs
  • how it affects the reader
  • true meaning of the literature (if there is an message)

Disadvantages

  • seems to be too judgement, but should be based on the artistic side and not always morals

Believers in the Approach

Horace

  • believed literature should be delightful and instructive
  • acknowledging literature power by believing it is capable of corrupting morals and undermining religion

Plato

  • literature must exhibit moralism

Aristotle

  • considered literature capable of fostering virtue

Samuel Johnson

  • function of literature is to teach morality and probe philosophical issues

3 Categories

Metaethics

  • finds where our morality stems from and how they are symbolic

Applied Ethics

  • applies philosophical uses to discover controversial problems and offer solutions to moral problems

Normative Ethics

  • discovers moral qualities to portray right from wrong

Moral Philosophical Approach

-examines literature that can be distinguish in what is makes it right or wrong

-most important use of literature is to teach morals and determine a philosophical view of human actions

- trying to display an "message" through the literature

-literature can be evaluated according to values

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