This document discusses the importance and power of stories and literature. Stories can educate by exploring moral psychology and negotiating context to advance self and societal improvement. They accommodate the complexity of human life, reveal perspectives, and shape culture. By transporting readers to other worlds and confronting them with possibilities, stories can ignite moral imagination and enhance ethical understanding and reasoning. Writers teach values through narratives in stories.

1. NAVLEEN MULTANI

2. • Stories represent life
• Self- Expression
• Means of Education
• Ethical Issues
• Character Develpoment
• Universal Experiences

3. Colin Mc Ginn
“Moral thinking lives and breathes on the page of a
literary text.”
Iris Murdoch believes that literature-novel, story, drama-
explores moral psychology.
Literary figures,characters and circumstances compound
moral psychology.
Stories negotiate context to advance non-conscious
modes of adjustment for improvement of self and society.

4. • Mode of Knowing
• Explore Local and Global Cultures
• Capture nuances of human life
• Accomodate ambiguity and complexity of human life
• Address the absences in moral theory
• Reveal mental aspects and perspectives
• Shape individual agents and orientations
• Produce culture

5. • Basis for 'democratic perception'
• Power to direct and reform lives and societies
• Understanding people,places,cultures,times and human
life
• Ethical assesment
• Enhance ethical reasoning
• Ignite moral imagination

6. Wayne C.Booth in The Company We Keep:An Ethics of
Fiction observes that writers teach values through
narratives.
Stories transport readers to other worlds;dark regions of
their souls,confront them with their fears and show them
the possibilities to a better life and world.
Stories connect readers to the past,make them
understand the present and shape lives.

7. SUBSTANCE FORM
Fact Fancy Historical Dramatic Didactic

8. STORIES
Dark Moments Courage
Forgotten Moments Glory
Marginalized Masses Awareness
Moral Issues Wisdom
Harold Rosen
Stories move readers from chaos of
daily life into understanding

9. • Three Questions Leo Tolstoy
• God Sees the Truth,
But Waits Leo Tolstoy
• The Bet Anton Chekhov
• Kabuliwala Rabindranath Tagore
• The Divorce(Talaq) Mahasweta Devi
• Sultana's Dream Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain
• Civil Peace Chinua Achebe