44 - Sophie Grace Chappell: Epiphanies, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Literature

Author: Robinson Erhardt
Published: Thu 19 Jan 2023
Episode Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robinson-erhardt/episodes/44---Sophie-Grace-Chappell-Epiphanies--Ethics--and-the-Philosophy-of-Literature-e1tgg6u

Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University in the UK. Before that she taught at the University of Dundee and Oxford. Sophie has a wide variety of interests, including ancient philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of literature. She and Robinson speak about her latest book, Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience. More particularly, their discussion centers around philosophy and literature—including a wonderful reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins—the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, and some potential pitfalls of taking a theory-building approach to moral philosophy.

Outline:

00:00 Introduction

2:27 Literae Humaniores

14:42 The Etymology of "Outrage"

19:19 Literature and the Phenomenology of Being Human

36:51 Ethics and Aesthetics

49:13 Poetry and Philosophy

53:40 What Are Epiphanies?

58:56 Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Terrible Sonnets

1:10:20 James Joyce and Epiphanies

1:14:35 Theory-Building Approaches to Ethics

1:24:41 Sophie's Approach to Ethics