Revolutionary Moral Fictionalism and the Problem of Imaginative Failure

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Revolutionary Moral Fictionalism and the Problem of Imaginative Failure

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

Description

The so-called “problem of imaginative resistance” is that it is very often extremely difficult, or even impossible, to enter imaginatively into scenarios where the moral status of things is markedly different from what we believe them to be. We have no trouble pretending that vampires exist, for example, but struggle to pretend that torturing innocent people for sadistic pleasure is a morally upstanding pastime. This poses a problem for the revolutionary moral fictionalist, who recommends tha...

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Research paper

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Thesis level

Book Section

Date created

2023-12-01

Creator

Brock, Stuart

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/38905

Related subjects

fictionalism / religious fictionalism / moral fictionalism / make-believe / imaginative resistance

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