Wojciech Kaftanski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1217481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wojciech Kaftanski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wojciech |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaftanski |
| SIGNATURE | KAFTANSKI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4480-2921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Imagination, Mental Representation, and Moral Agency
Mental images and imagination in moral education
This article argues for a unique role of imagination and mental images in the moral education of students. Imagination is rendered here as a capacity oriented toward realizable and salient goals; mental images are understood as particular future-oriented self-representations (FOSRs) devised by and held in imagination. FOSRs have four moral attributes: they are 1) expressive of us as moral agents, 2) shape our moral identity, 3) serve as moral poi…
The Vice of Social Comparison in Kierkegaard
This paper argues for the thesis that social comparison is, for Kierkegaard, a vice. The first part of this article reconstructs Kierkegaard's understanding of the nature of social comparison. Here, I bring attention to his anthropological but also political and sociological observations that pertain to social comparison and its links to modernity. The second part reconstructs the moral psychological account of social comparison in Kierkegaard, d…
Admiration, Affectivity, and Value
Introduction
Imagination is a key notion in Soren Kierkegaard’s complex and multilayered thought. Kierkegaard considers the subject of imagination [Indbildining or Phantasie] in the overwhelming majority of his
Kierkegaard on Imitation and Ethics
This essay demonstrates the prominence of imitation in Kierkegaard’s ethics. I move beyond his idea of authentic existence modeled on Christ and explore the secular dimension of Kierkegaard’s insights about human nature and imitation. I start with presenting imitation as key to understanding the ethical dimension of the relationship between the universal and individual aspects of the human self in Kierkegaard. I then show that Kierkegaard’s moral…
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Kierkegaard on Imitation and Ethics
This essay demonstrates the prominence of imitation in Kierkegaard’s ethics. I move beyond his idea of authentic existence modeled on Christ and explore the secular dimension of Kierkegaard’s insights about human nature and imitation. I start with presenting imitation as key to understanding the ethical dimension of the relationship between the universal and individual aspects of the human self in Kierkegaard. I then show that Kierkegaard’s moral…
Introduction
Imagination is a key notion in Soren Kierkegaard’s complex and multilayered thought. Kierkegaard considers the subject of imagination [Indbildining or Phantasie] in the overwhelming majority of his
Admiration, Affectivity, and Value
The Vice of Social Comparison in Kierkegaard
This paper argues for the thesis that social comparison is, for Kierkegaard, a vice. The first part of this article reconstructs Kierkegaard's understanding of the nature of social comparison. Here, I bring attention to his anthropological but also political and sociological observations that pertain to social comparison and its links to modernity. The second part reconstructs the moral psychological account of social comparison in Kierkegaard, d…
Imagination, Mental Representation, and Moral Agency
Mental images and imagination in moral education
This article argues for a unique role of imagination and mental images in the moral education of students. Imagination is rendered here as a capacity oriented toward realizable and salient goals; mental images are understood as particular future-oriented self-representations (FOSRs) devised by and held in imagination. FOSRs have four moral attributes: they are 1) expressive of us as moral agents, 2) shape our moral identity, 3) serve as moral poi…
Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (2 works)