Enhancing Ethics through Literature and Film is an Intra-Faculty Research Project between SALIS, School of Communication, Institute of Ethics and School of Education Studies.

Premise

Humanities researchers have argued that Education is a matter of broad cultural initiation rather than narrow academic or vocational training, that it has a key concern with the moral dimensions of personal formation and that literature and the arts have an important part to play in such matters.

What is needed for a clear view of the Moral Educational relevance of literature and the related arts is a conception of Moral Education that does justice to the interplay between the cognitive and the affective in moral life.

Literature and Film are part of the science of observation and of getting to know humanity based on critical investigation of human nature in all its representations and forms of expression. They provide an essential educational feature that can explore ethical themes, develop self-awareness in terms of values and beliefs, and offer new perceptions and expressions of the real, and they help develop the autonomous self.

The role of Literature and Film in the enhancement of Ethics Education has not been fully investigated until now.