Imagination and Principles: An Essay on the Role of Imagination in Moral Reasoning

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Questions......Page 11
Approach......Page 14
Part I: Pragmatism and Technology (deliberating actors)......Page 18
1.1 The siren call of moral imagination......Page 20
1.2 Roles: The imagination wizard......Page 21
1.3 Implications for moral theory......Page 30
2.1 Social constraints: The arguments against extreme relativism......Page 37
2.2 Moral constraints: Conventionalism and moral neutrality......Page 39
2.3 Epistemological constraints......Page 54
3.1 Professional responsibility and regulation......Page 65
3.2 A fourfold integration......Page 69
3.3 Imagination and principles......Page 72
Conclusion Part I......Page 78
Part II: Moral Sentiment and Culture (judging spectators)......Page 80
4 Nussbaum......Page 82
4.1 Empathy as a twofold attention......Page 83
4.2 Empathy, literature, and world citizenship......Page 84
4.3 Sources: Aristotle, pragmatism, Hume, and Adam Smith......Page 87
5.1 Empathy, literature, and citizenship......Page 100
5.2 Judgment......Page 106
5.3 Beyond poetic justice......Page 111
6.1 TV news, empathy, and terrorism......Page 125
6.2 Videogames and violence: The temptations of moral exploration......Page 130
6.3 Imagination and principles......Page 135
Conclusion Part II......Page 137
Part III: Absolutism and Politics (world citizens)......Page 140
7 Kant and Kantians......Page 142
7.1 Kant: Interpretations of the categorical imperative and the Anthropology......Page 143
7.2 Arendt on judgment and the silent dialogue with oneself......Page 158
7.3 Other absolutist theories: Murdoch and Levinas......Page 166
8.1 Problems with Kant, Arendt, and other absolutist theories......Page 176
8.2 Rousseau\'s political solution and Arendt\'s arguments against revolution......Page 182
8.3 Inter-action: Habermas\'s synthesis of pragmatism, moral sentiment, and Kant......Page 192
9.1 Four globalisations and cosmopolitanisms......Page 207
9.2 Cosmopolitanism as a moral theory and practice......Page 208
9.3 Imagination and principles: A discussion of global justice......Page 220
Conclusion Part III......Page 230
Conclusion......Page 231
Notes......Page 235
Bibliography......Page 243
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