44 - Sophie Grace Chappell: Epiphanies, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Literature

Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University in the UK. Before that she taught at the University of Dundee and Oxford. Sophie has a wide variety of interests, including ancient philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of literature. She and Robinson speak about her latest book, Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience. More particularly, their discussion centers around philosophy and literature—including a wonderful reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins—the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, and some potential pitfalls of taking a theory-building approach to moral philosophy.

Outline:

00:00 Introduction

2:27 Literae Humaniores

14:42 The Etymology of "Outrage"

19:19 Literature and the Phenomenology of Being Human

36:51 Ethics and Aesthetics

49:13 Poetry and Philosophy

53:40 What Are Epiphanies?

58:56 Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Terrible Sonnets

1:10:20 James Joyce and Epiphanies

1:14:35 Theory-Building Approaches to Ethics

1:24:41 Sophie's Approach to Ethics

1:29:49 Testing Ethical Theories

1:32:12 Sophie the Mountaineer

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