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     • She emphasizes virtues like humility, integrity, and rationality, while highlighting the follies of pride, prejudice, and social snobbery. Austen's moral vision aims to promote personal growth and social harmony.
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   Why should we read Jane Austen?

   • It’s not just their literary quality. Austen was also a brilliant moral philosopher who analysed and taught a virtue ethics for middle-class life that is surprisingly contemporary. Appreciating this can help us understand why she wrote the way she did, and how and why we should read her today.

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   Was Jane Austen a good moralist?

   • For without a doubt, Jane Austen was a brilliant moralist from whom we still have much to learn today. Underneath the veneer of romantic comedy that helped them sell, her novels are deeply serious morality plays. They are moral education masquerading as entertainment.

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   Why is Austen a moralist?

   • Austen celebrates and promotes a solidly middle-class ethics, and this, together with her use of literary narrative (and her femininity?), may explain why her moral philosophy is rarely recognised as such. Yet success for Austen’s characters depends on their developing a moral character.

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   What makes Jane Austen's books different?

   • Yet there is one further striking feature that sets Austen’s novels apart: her moral gaze. The omniscient author of her books sees right through people to their moral character, and then exposes and dissects their follies, flaws, and self-deceptions.

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   Did Jane Austen have ethical expertise?

   • Thomas Rodham keenly observes Jane Austen’s exacting ethical expertise. Jane Austen (1775-1817) wrote delicious romantic comedies about middle-class girls looking for good husbands among the landed gentry of Regency England.

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   What is Austen's moral education?

   • Austen’s moral education is far more direct. Her novels analyse and teach a virtue ethics for bourgeois life – the kind of life that most of us live today.

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   Austen was also a brilliant moral philosopher who analysed and taught a virtue ethics for middle-class life that is surprisingly contemporary. Appreciating this can help us understand why she wrote the way she did, and how and why we should read her today.

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   Mar 8, 2019 · Jane Austen is the most moral of writers, but what is her morality? What values does she espouse and promote?

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   Oct 20, 2024 · That is the subject of Tom Keymer’s Jane Austen: Writings, Politics, Society — her commitment to the (in some sense) conservative old-world society broadly influenced by traditional Christian morality.

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   But Austen was also a brilliant moral philosopher who analysed and taught a virtue ethics for middle-class life that is surprisingly contemporary. Appreciating this can help us understand why she wrote the way she did and how we should read her today.

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   Duty in the paradigm behind the works of Wordsworth and Austen can be seen as the human center of moral obligation from which radiates what one owes to family, friends, community, and church, where all is concentrated and united in worship and faith before and with God.

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   Mar 15, 2022 · Austen’s novels show us in the individual lives of her characters the moral meaning of the pursuit of money. They confront the old philosophical cognitive dissonance about wealth and possessions and show us that money is part of a moral life, whether we like it or not.

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    Jane Austen’s novels are all about the moral formation of personal character. Her aim is always to make the plot express the character, and the character generate the plot in an indissoluble unity; and it is moral character that interests her.