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Moving in a world you cannot see: from imaginative perception to creative moral imagination
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In this chapter I discuss the relation between imaginative perception and moral creativity. I focus on three authors that have explained moral imagination as imaginative perception. Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, and Cora Diamond have all argued how we use imagination to transform our perspective of moral situations. However, their central examples demonstrate the importance of morally inventive action as well. I argue that this reveals another mode of moral imagination: moral creativity. While a creative process might build on imaginative perception, moral creativity includes inventive responses to moral problems that are not necessarily given by seeing the world in another way.
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English
Source (book)
The philosophy of imagination: technology, art and ethics / Wellner, Galit [edit.]; et al. [edit.]
Publication
London : Bloombsbury Publishing , 2024
ISBN
978-1-350-27723-6
DOI
10.5040/9781350277243.0011
Volume/pages
p. 86-97
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Creation 24.04.2024
Last edited 26.04.2024
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