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Moral perception as imaginative apprehension
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Abstract
Moral perception is typically understood as moral properties perception, i.e., the perceptual registration of moral properties such as wrongness or dignity. In this article, I defend a view of moral perception as a process that involves imaginative apprehension of reality. It is meant as an adjustment to the dominant view of moral perception as moral properties perception and as an addition to existing Murdochian approaches to moral perception. The view I present here builds on Iris Murdoch’s moral psychology and holds that moral perception is an imaginative exploration of the particularity of concrete objects of moral reality (e.g., persons, situations, and events), rather than a registration of moral properties. I argue that such imaginative apprehension includes direct and reflective uses of imagination and that this process grounds experiential moral knowledge that serves the ultimate role of moral perception: getting a better grip on concrete objects of moral reality.
Language
English
Source (journal)
The journal of ethics. - Dordrecht, 1997, currens
Publication
Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers , 2023
ISSN
1382-4554 [print]
1572-8609 [online]
DOI
10.1007/S10892-023-09462-5
Volume/pages
(2023) , 20 p.
ISI
001087603500001
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Last edited 10.01.2024
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