Exploring the Possibilities of Fictional Films in Serving Moral Life: A Case Study of A Separation Based on Noël Carroll's Approach
Subject Areas : Ethics and Islamic EducationMohsen Karami 1 , Sama Esfandyari 2
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2 - IRIB University
Keywords: A Separation, fictional film, moral life, Noël Carroll.,
Abstract :
This study, employing Noël Carroll's moralist approach, examines the potential of the film A Separation in serving moral life by contributing to four prerequisites of ethical living: moral knowledge, moral understanding, moral experience, and moral skills. Through its multi-dimensional characters and realistic narrative, the film provides the audience with propositional moral knowledge about the conflict of values and the precedence of the ethics of compassion over the ethics of justice. Furthermore, it enhances the audience’s moral understanding by highlighting value conflicts and analyzing their consequences, as well as through the concrete portrayal of characters adhering to different moral systems. In addition, by creating complex emotional situations and enabling empathy with its characters, the film offers valuable moral experiences to the audience. Finally, by persistently engaging the audience in moral judgment throughout the film and providing conditions for calibrating their emotions in critical moments, it cultivates their judgmental and emotional management skills. In light of the foregoing, this research demonstrates that A Separation, utilizing cinematic storytelling tools, brings morality from the realm of abstraction into the tangible world of everyday life, creating a platform for the audience's moral growth. Thus, by presenting an example of narrative films with such capability, it can be argued that narrative cinema inherently possesses the potential to contribute to moral life.
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