![]() To some extent, the reason for this estrangement was cultural. Very few noted philosophers attempted fiction, and Iris Murdoch was the only eminent novelist to publish serious works of moral philosophy. ![]() ![]() In the English-speaking world, by contrast, things were very different. In the latter half of the twentieth century, fiction and philosophy drew close in France, with Sartre and Camus writing both kinds of books and blurring the distinction. And yet, from the time when Plato attacked the tragic artists, the relationship has often been characterized by mutual suspicion, philosophers viewing narrative literature as indulgent, emotional, and lacking in normative clarity, writers of fiction viewing philosophers as intolerant moralists who lack appreciation of what Proust calls the “intermittences of the heart.” But some cultures and some periods have been marked by especially hostile relations between the camps. Both genres are concerned with character and choice, with motives and imaginings, with the vicissitudes of passion. ![]() How is moral philosophy related to narrative fiction? One would think that the relationship ought to be an intimate one. ![]()
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