Hello and welcome back to Lady Disdain Reads! Today I bring to you a video on philosopher Gilbert Ryle's take on Austen as a secular ethicist. Enjoy!
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Gilbert Ryle: ‘Jane Austen and the Moralists’ (1966).
Irene Collins: Jane Austen and the Clergy (1994), Jane Austen: The Parson’s Daughter (1998).
Calvinism: branch of Protestantism that broke off from the Catholic Church in the 16th century and follows the beliefs and practice of theologian John Calvin. This theological system emphasises the depravity and fallenness of mankind.
Aristotelianism: philosophical tradition derived from the works of Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC), in particular Aristotle’s works on virtue ethics.
Quotations from Gilbert Ryle:
‘theoretical problems about human nature’
‘Jane Austen… pin-points the exact quality of character in which she is interested, and the exact degree of that quality, by matching it against the same quality in different degrees, against simulations of that quality, against deficiencies of it and against qualities which, though different, are brothers or cousins of that selected quality.’
‘A moralist of the Calvinist type thinks… of human beings as either Saved or Damned, either Elect or Reject, either children of Virtue or children of Vice, either heading for Heaven or heading for Hell, either White or Black, either Innocent or Guilty, either Saints or Sinners.’
‘the Aristotelian pattern of ethical ideas represents people as differing from one another in degree and not in kind'
‘hardly a whisper of piety enters into even the most serious and most anguished meditations of her heroines. They never pray and they never give thanks on their knees.’
‘Her heroines face their moral difficulties and solve their moral problems without recourse to religious faith or theological doctrines’
From Sense and Sensibility:
‘Had I died, it would have been self-destruction.’
‘to have time for atonement to my God and to you all’
From Pride and Prejudice:
‘vanity, not love, has been my folly’
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