[lit-ideas] Re: Moral Imagination [correction]
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:14:56 -0700
I wrote
My point was that I consider it to have been 'wrong' (a word that
seems far too thin to characterize what was done in the Nazi
concentration camps), even though I cannot begin to imagine what it
would have been like to have lived and suffered in one of them.
Granted, Donal (via Popper?) says that such a feat of the imagination
is a sufficient condition for being able to condemn the killing of
millions of human beings in such barbaric ways; yet, to repeat, I
don't believe it is even a necessary condition. I can't do it by means
of any thought experiment, and no more can I imagine what it would be
like to be a twelve-year-old girl dying of cancer.
I was trying to rewrite a sentence and garbled it even more. Neither
Donal nor Popper believes that such a feat of the imagination is a
sufficient condition for....etc.
Apologies.
Robert Paul
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