Or at least using it in schools. Fiction = lies, after all @SylosonsCloak
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it's possible I'm misremembering, but in any case fiction is literally made up
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in any case, literature, as something beautiful, is civilising and uplifting.
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it's also didactic, as it functions as a synthetic history or second-hand experiential knowledge, and promotes the author's values.
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I think the results of promoting the authors' values have turned out very bad overall
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OTOH promoting the values of Homer, Virgil, Dante, or the Book of Odes have turned out very well.
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the question is, which authors do we teach to these students? You get very different results based on that.
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I'd say that even many new interpretations of the old literature are a problem.
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Much of the problem is that fiction is literally made up and thus more open to such interpretations. Science is better.
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I'm looking around since I am curious about it, but haven't found this yet.
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ok, having tracked this down a bit, it was thirdhand info which I suspect came from a slight misinterpretation of a
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statement on page 252 of Tolstoy: A Russian Life indicating that "he did not stop writing fiction entirely, but it became
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secondary to the more pressing task of exposing the hypocrisy and immorality he saw around him."
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got it, thanks. IIRC St. Thomas Aquinas stopped writing near the end of his life, so there are authors who do this sort of thing.
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