"Rather than being divorced from life, our reading experience -- if we read actively and with intelligence -- is central to life and contributes to the development of the mature personality. Literature provides surrogate experiences for the reader, experiences that, because they are embodied within artistically shaped ontologies, heighten our awareness of moral discriminations. Yet, I suggest, what distinguishes moral philophy from literature is its specificity, its nominalism, and its dramatized particularity."
"Literature calls upon us to respond fully, viscerally, with every dimension of our psychological and moral being."
From "A Humanistic Ethics of Reading" by Daniel R. Schwarz, included in the book Mapping the Ethical Turn
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