It has remained a moral text if not quite a literary one.
Read Peanuts in the right mindset and it's an uplifting, strikingly moral text.
Strikingly, "Here Is Elsewhere" featured the very kind of art that is most typically accompanied, in museum shows, by didactic, moral-pointing wall texts.
Rousseau's invocation of three types of freedom (natural, civil, and moral) in the text of The Social Contract can appear confusing.
Codes of behaviour and other "implements of moral instruction", such as texts of "history, biography, novels and dramatic compositions" (UC lxxxvii, 18 19), could be utilised to divert people from inclinations damaging to themselves and others and to teach them to derive pleasure from benevolence.
The absorptivity or pleasing nature of the aesthetic or even moral elements of metamodern texts is -- as an initial matter -- beside the point, though as is always the case with aesthetics, no text is "non-aesthetic" as opposed to merely "differentially admired".
All of which make me think that Godard would send great tweets; at his best, his flashing texts are moral signposts serving as a never-ending scrutiny of history, between which we get endless visual pot shots at life on a cruise ship.
Entertainment is peripheral, if not antithetical, to the true experience of literature, and it is surely less exciting than "the drama of individuals shaping their ideals and morals in reaction to texts".
Nonetheless, Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was not intended as a comprehensive political philosophy of the state, nor was it intended as a text of moral philosophy.
The early Church Fathers sometimes used a threefold method of interpreting texts, encompassing literal, moral, and spiritual meanings.
