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Fascinating exploration of Eliot's moral theory,
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This review is from: Experiments in life; George Eliot's Quest for Values (Hardcover)
This book, which is unfortunately out of print, explores the secular morality promulgated by Eliot in her novels. We learn of the influences on Eliot's thinking, including the philosophy of Feuerbach (The Essence of Religion (Great Books in Philosophy)). Eliot wanted to retain what was good about Christianity in a secular world. She identified suffering as a key step in moral growth toward the ideal of living for others, and she used her novels as a way to test her theory by creating realistic characters who may or may not succeed in growing morally.
This was Bernard Paris' first book, developed from his dissertation, which was written when he considered himself, essentially, a disciple of Eliot's secular religion. His life experiences and the influence of psychoanalyst Karen Horney Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis led him to reevaluate Eliot's theories and the validity of her "experiments in life," most notably in Rereading George Eliot: Changing Responses to Her Experiments in Life. Nevertheless, the earlier book is still worth reading for Eliot fans. In addition, the book captures some of the excitement of nineteenth-century thinking, when science seemed to diminish the domain of religion, forcing philosophers to re-explore the nature of morality.
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