Moral Education as a Function of Fiction as Viewed through the Medium of Cinema

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This paper discusses moral understanding, using the theories of Currie and Carroll. The paper is broken down into three parts in which moral understanding is defined, personal morality is determined and imagination and morality are argued as one and the same, thereby concluding that imagination leads to moral decision making which leads to a potential for novel moral understanding.

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"Fundamentally, cinema bears a rather foreboding problem for the individual that may be seeking something more than entertainment. That is to say, attempting to learn from fiction inherently carries the portentous weight of potential error, depending on what one attempts to learn and exactly what method that individual intends to implement to learn those things. One thing that seems to be an established agreement amongst many of the thinkers in this field is that, in order to garner factual information from fiction, one must already have a clear understanding and basis for what is fact in the real world. In bringing that preconceived judgment to fictional cinema, one can, hopefully, differentiate and regulate the information that he receives and considers as fact. Morality, however, presents a fundamentally alternate approach, as what can be considered moral, for all intents and purposes, differs from one individual to the next. Thusly, drawing moral education from fiction relies far more heavily on the learner s personal stances and experiences rather than on his background knowledge of reality."

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