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Direct linkMaxwell, Bruce – Journal of Moral Education, 2006
Martha Nussbaum and others claim that the study of literature can make a significant contribution to political education by nurturing empathic capacities. In Nussbaum's reading of the situation, the need to promote the creation of bonds of compassion-based solidarity between co-citizens provides material for an argument to restore the study of…
Descriptors: Novels, Social Psychology, Altruism, Curriculum Development
