Cora Diamond and the Ethical Imagination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9466778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (0000-0002-6468-8970, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 223-240 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ays022 |
| OpenAlex | W2079080830 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In much of her writing, Cora Diamond stresses the role of the imagination in awakening the sense of our humanity. She subtly unthreads the operations of the ethical imagination in literature, but deplores its absence in philosophy. Borrowing the notion of 'deflection' from Cavell, Diamond sees ethical understanding 'present only in a diminished and distorted way in philosophical argumentation' (2008, 57). She does, however, herself make a philosophical, if idiosyncratic, use of the imagination in her appeal to it for a 'transitional' understanding of nonsensical Tractarian remarks. I begin by delineating and endorsing Diamond's humanistic view of the creative imagination; I then argue against her opportunistic use of the imagination in her interpretation of the Tractatus and her condemnation of philosophical ethics
Aesthetics · Appeal · Argumentation theory · Epistemology · Humanism · Humanity · Imagination · Interpretation (philosophy · Political science · Theology · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |