Eagleton is a Marxist that is also a British literary theorist and critic. He was really interested in morality, ethics, and the question of truth. Reading “After Theory” Chapter 5 “ Truth, Virtue, and Objectivity”. In this chapter Eagleton talked about Truth, Virtue, Morality, Objectivity, and Ethics. This is because of the modern capitalistic society that we live in. When I was reading the chapter you can really see how Eagleton dissects how postmodernist see and understand Truth, Virtue, Morality, Objectivity, and Ethics. Starting with truth, Eagleton discussed that there is no ‘absolute’ truth for there to be a so-called ‘absolute’ tr uth someone has to be wrong. People who believe in absolute truths are not by any means all arrogant
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When looking at truth, virtue, morality, and ethics; which will be talking about later; Eagleton say that a notion of disinterestedness, this is done by not doing something for yourself but purely for others. Eagleton said it best that the “one way in which we recognize that the world is objective is by recognizing the presence of others whose behavior manifest the fact that, at a very basic level, reality is pretty much the same for them as it is for ourselves” (138).
Now, with the last topic of ethics, Aristotle said that ethics is “the science of human desire since desire is the motive behind all our actions” (124). Having an ethical education is needed to teach us to be happy about living a moral life. To achieve such a life one has to learn to enjoy being just, merciful, and independent. To do it just for our own means, which is campaigned in a capitalistic society, it is not true morality. In my view of the chapter, this chapter is difficult to read at first I feel for anyone especially those that are not yet used to this type of reading. It has a lot to say about this topic as well as trying to make sure that they can see the connection that he puts throughout the chapter. It’s once you have gone through the first read and get into the second that it is much easier to see those connections and how a capitalistic society has negatively affected
When looking at truth, virtue, morality, and ethics; which will be talking about later; Eagleton say that a notion of disinterestedness, this is done by not doing something for yourself but purely for others. Eagleton said it best that the “one way in which we recognize that the world is objective is by recognizing the presence of others whose behavior manifest the fact that, at a very basic level, reality is pretty much the same for them as it is for ourselves” (138).
Now, with the last topic of ethics, Aristotle said that ethics is “the science of human desire since desire is the motive behind all our actions” (124). Having an ethical education is needed to teach us to be happy about living a moral life. To achieve such a life one has to learn to enjoy being just, merciful, and independent. To do it just for our own means, which is campaigned in a capitalistic society, it is not true morality. In my view of the chapter, this chapter is difficult to read at first I feel for anyone especially those that are not yet used to this type of reading. It has a lot to say about this topic as well as trying to make sure that they can see the connection that he puts throughout the chapter. It’s once you have gone through the first read and get into the second that it is much easier to see those connections and how a capitalistic society has negatively affected