[lit-ideas] Imagination
- From: "Adriano Palma" <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:04:16 +0200
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it may help to get into focus that 'a imagines that p' makes perfect
sense.
consider the tokening of the instance
'palma imagines that speranza does not exist & palma imagines that
'speranza' is a database of idiocies masquerading by "griceanisms"
adopting the program IF THERE IS A QUESTION —> CLAIM THERE IS AN
ANSWERBYGRICE'
you may wonder why it makes sense? well, one take is the following, it
is fully propositional, it is compoistional on p (hence palma might be
wrong about p and speranza may even exist, and so forth)
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ξε ν’, γγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ἀ ὅτι τ δε
κείμεθα, το ς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
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>>> <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> 10/8/2011 3:58 PM >>>
In a message dated 10/8/2011 4:45:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
_jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxxx (mailto:jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx)
quotes from the quote by McCreery:
"the literary imagination, for Trilling, was preeminently a “moral
imagination.” Moral imagination—not the moralistic dicta or
pronouncements evoked
in present-day debates about same-sex marriage, abortion, and the
like.
The true moral imagination transcends such dogmatic moralizing because
it is
imbued with “moral realism,” a realism that is “not the awareness of
morality itself but of the contradictions, paradoxes, and dangers of
living the
moral life.”
It is this combination of “moral realism” and “moral imagination” that
was the basis of Trilling’s critique of the “liberal imagination.”
That
phrase first appeared in the title of the introductory chapter of his
book on
E. M. Forster, “Forster and the Liberal Imagination”:
For all his long commitment to the doctrines of liberalism Forster is
at
war with the liberal imagination. Surely if liberalism has a single
desperate weakness, it is an inadequacy of imagination: liberalism is
always being
surprised. Surprised, because the “liberal mind” has an unrealistic
and
simplistic view of morality itself. It thinks that “good is good and
bad is
bad. . . . Before the idea of good-and-evil its imagination fails.” It
cannot accept this “improbable paradox,” a paradox that such “great
conservative minds” as Johnson, Burke, and Arnold well understood."
The word 'imagination' -- despite Dame Mary Warnock, in England -- has
little import in philosophy.
"A imagines that p"
does not make REAL direct sense. Consider:
"John imagined the sky is blue."
The idea of _moral_ imagination is thus pre-Humean: there are
"imagines"
(singular 'imago') and this can be moral! Absurd! This results in a
_r
epresentationalist_ view of stuff. As Palma notes, what's imaginative
about
'withdrawal'? What is the _moral_ agent who withdraws from something
_imagining_?! Nothing!
Hence, by reductio ad absurdum, the misuses, literary and other, of
that
morally VERY AMBIGUOUS character, E. M. Forster, the closet gay who
wrote a
boring unpublished novel about coming out!
---- Cheers,
Speranza
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