TY - JOUR
T1 - What Maisie Knew: Moral Imagination and Two Conceptions of Moral Thought
AU - Taylor, Craig
PY - 2017/12/20
Y1 - 2017/12/20
N2 - According to a widely held view, moral thought essentially involves the survey of an array of independently specifiable morally relevant facts, on the basis of which an agent is to reach a judgment about how anybody in that situation ought to act. I argue, drawing on Henry James's What Maisie Knew, that one thing that such a view discounts is the role of imagination in moral thought, and specifically in contributing to what Iris Murdoch has called someone's personal vision of life.
AB - According to a widely held view, moral thought essentially involves the survey of an array of independently specifiable morally relevant facts, on the basis of which an agent is to reach a judgment about how anybody in that situation ought to act. I argue, drawing on Henry James's What Maisie Knew, that one thing that such a view discounts is the role of imagination in moral thought, and specifically in contributing to what Iris Murdoch has called someone's personal vision of life.
UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/sats-2017-0007
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85037704668&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/sats-2017-0007
DO - 10.1515/sats-2017-0007
M3 - Article
VL - 18
SP - 141
EP - 157
JO - SATS: Northern European Journal of Philosophy
JF - SATS: Northern European Journal of Philosophy
SN - 1869-7577
IS - 2
ER -