Emotional Entreaty?

In response to Jacob's post "The Moral Medium," I intend to consider his claim that dialogue is the best medium for moral philosophy. I agree that a dialogue synthesizes the ease of reading with the clarity of a treatise. There is one potentially important aspect which we must consider however; whether emotional evocation is necessary for full consideration of a moral issue. Nussbaum argues that the emotional consideration is necessary, and if so, an argument could be made on behalf of narrative form, in the sense that narrative form may allow a reader to emotionally connect to an issue more than a dialogue could.

I do not think that emotional consideration is necessary, but I think that we must determine that definitively before we can claim that a dialogue is the best medium for moral philosophy.