Book contents
- Morality and Metaphysics
- Morality and Metaphysics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Structure and Scope of the Moral Point of View
- Chapter 1 Reflection and Morality
- Chapter 2 The Idea of Duties to Oneself
- Chapter 3 The Ethics of Reading
- Chapter 4 The Holes in Holism
- Part II Self and World
- Index
Chapter 3 - The Ethics of Reading
from Part I - The Structure and Scope of the Moral Point of View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2021
Book contents
- Morality and Metaphysics
- Morality and Metaphysics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Structure and Scope of the Moral Point of View
- Chapter 1 Reflection and Morality
- Chapter 2 The Idea of Duties to Oneself
- Chapter 3 The Ethics of Reading
- Chapter 4 The Holes in Holism
- Part II Self and World
- Index
Summary
An ethics of reading holds that reading is itself an act of ethical significance. When reading is responsible to the meaning of a text, it shows the author a respect the author deserves. Developing this ethics of reading places some of the key questions of philosophical hermeneutics – that is, of the theory of interpretation – in a new and illuminating setting. Just as importantly, it shows how reading in its ethical dimension gives powerful expression to the essence of ethical thinking itself.
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- Morality and Metaphysics , pp. 72 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021