Essays on philosphy and literature. This volume collects published papers on the relationship between literature and phisophy, especially moral philosphy. The essays explores some fundamental issues about the connections between philosphy and literature: the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; the role of the emotions in deliberaion and self-knowledge. "The best modern discussion of the ways in which what we call philosophy and what we call literaure interrelate...", Wayne C. Booth