Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ORIENTATIONS – Moral Intuitionisms and the Emerging Europe
- PART ONE FIRST READINGS
- Chapter One Versions of Modernity
- Chapter Two Moral Discourse and Figurative Articulations of Suffering in T.S. Eliot
- Chapter Three Moral Knowledge and Perceptions of Suffering in Paul Valéry
- Chapter Four Moral Motivation and Suffering in Eugenio Montale
- INTERLUDE
- PART TWO SECOND THOUGHTS
Chapter Three - Moral Knowledge and Perceptions of Suffering in Paul Valéry
from PART ONE - FIRST READINGS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ORIENTATIONS – Moral Intuitionisms and the Emerging Europe
- PART ONE FIRST READINGS
- Chapter One Versions of Modernity
- Chapter Two Moral Discourse and Figurative Articulations of Suffering in T.S. Eliot
- Chapter Three Moral Knowledge and Perceptions of Suffering in Paul Valéry
- Chapter Four Moral Motivation and Suffering in Eugenio Montale
- INTERLUDE
- PART TWO SECOND THOUGHTS
Summary
Our objective so far has been twofold. First, we saw how both the main subject of our reflection here, moral intuitionism and suffering, as well as our three themes of moral discourse, moral knowledge, and moral motivation, may be seen to arise in both contemporary ethical reflection in Europe today as well as in the poetry of European high modernism yesterday. Second, we took up the first of three central and still problematic aspects of our main subject, the theme of moral discourse.
Our rough working hypothesis was that some fruitful linguistic and conceptual sources for specifying more fully the sources, nature, and reliability of moral intuition could be identified not just in the mainly literal descriptions of events. They could also be found in some non-literal poetic representations of human suffering in several exemplary instances of European high modernist texts.
Accordingly, we proceeded to a critical and reflective reading of several representative figurative representations of moral intuition and personal moral suffering in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). We considered attentively one of the many difficult and still pertinent matters today on exhibit in that poetry, sufficiently responsive communication between men and women. We also considered how some critically reflective readers of such poetic representations might properly be said to apprehend these matters through some kinds of moral intuition.
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- Aspects Yellowing DarklyEthics, Intuitions, and the European High Modernist Poetry of Suffering and Passage, pp. 73 - 90Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2010