By moral breadth, I mean the capacity to see a person not just as good or bad but as containing a lot of both. Last month I wrote: Thought for the day is that the capacity to see individuals as morally large as capable of being saintly in some ways and fiendish in others seems to be important for everything from mental health, to getting along with others, to grasping how people really are. Tragedy develops this capacity.
Moral breadth
Moral breadth
Moral breadth
By moral breadth, I mean the capacity to see a person not just as good or bad but as containing a lot of both. Last month I wrote: Thought for the day is that the capacity to see individuals as morally large as capable of being saintly in some ways and fiendish in others seems to be important for everything from mental health, to getting along with others, to grasping how people really are. Tragedy develops this capacity.