Affiliation:
1. Philosophy, Princeton University
2. Philosophy, University of Puget Sound
Abstract
AbstractThis chapter identifies and presents predominant debates at the intersection of ethics and imagination. The authors begin by examining issues on whether imagination can be constrained by ethical considerations, such as the moral evaluation of imagination, the potential for morality’s constraining our imaginative abilities, and the possibility of moral norms’ governing our imaginings. In the next section, the authors present accounts that posit imagination’s integral role in cultivating ethical lives, both through engagements with narrative artworks and in reality. Finally, the chapter concludes with a focus on the possibility of imagination constituting or constructing new ethical or political frameworks.
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