Moral persuasion and the diversity of fiction

• Main Author: Liao, Shen-yi.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102015; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18863
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Narrative representations can change our moral actions and thoughts, for better or for worse. In this article, I develop a theory of fictions' capacity for moral education and moral corruption that is fully sensitive to the diversity of fictions. Specifically, I argue that the way a fiction inf...