Ethical Criticism Opposition by Suzanne Choo https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo Ethical Criticism should not be prioritized in Literature education. en-us 2018-09-15 17:48:47 UTC 2018-09-17 11:00:35 UTC hello@padlet.com immersion in lit does not make us better citizens or better people https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282214391 2018-09-17 10:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282214391 Opposition https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282214736 -A work of literary art should be evaluated on its aesthetics; not ethics. Because when ethics is the key to evaluating literature, good literary works that are considered "immoral" will be ignored, discredited. 
-Moral issues depicted in some literature works are "for the most part remote from ethical concerns" or obsolete e.g. interracial marriage in Othello is considered "unnatural" but today, interracial marriages are not something that is frowned upon.
-Literature represents imaginative probabilities; not actual realities.
-Research has not shown that altruistic personality is enhanced by higher education and culture.  ]]> 2018-09-17 10:43:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282214736 https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282214892 morally offensive views encountered in lit should not determine our view of things/ issues]]> 2018-09-17 10:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282214892 https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282215066 The moral content of a work of literature is likely to be obsolete whether or not  it conforms to our current moral views. ]]> 2018-09-17 10:44:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282215066 Literature helps readers confirm their views rather than change them. https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282215594 (Lit has no influence)]]> 2018-09-17 10:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282215594 https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282216083 There are more than one moral values presented in the literary work and readers can interpret them from different perspectives.]]> 2018-09-17 10:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282216083 Literature might present or highlight moral dilemmas but it doesn't provide a way out of them. https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282216677 2018-09-17 10:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282216677 Posner's arguments https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282218436 1. danger of lit as tool for moral indoctrination
2. ethical readings as reductive
3. great lit as highly dramatized thereby obscuring ethics]]> 2018-09-17 10:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282218436 https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282218716 Fictional depiction in literary work might be exaggerated that we should focus on the aesthetic values more than the moral aspects. ]]> 2018-09-17 10:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tosuzannechoo/zao4p392d0oo/wish/282218716