Artistic imagination and its role in moral progress: embracing William James’ cries of the wounded
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- dc.contributor.author Castella-Martinez, Sergi
- dc.contributor.author Weber, Bernadette
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-10T09:52:51Z
- dc.date.available 2024-10-10T09:52:51Z
- dc.date.issued 2024
- dc.description Data de publicació electrònica: 21 de setembre de 2024
- dc.description.abstract In recent pragmatist-leaning philosophy and ethics, the Jamesian notion of the cries of the wounded has reemerged as a method of evoking moral progress. Philosophers like Philip Kitcher have argued that a surefooted approach to the complaints of those harmed by given social moral arrangements may lead to an improvement of moral thought, practices and institutions. Yet, at the same time, it has been acknowledged that this comprises a most evident problem: many wounded stakeholders do not cry out about their sorrow, not at last because they may not be capable of doing so. In this paper, we aim at providing a more detailed account on the communicative range of social unrest, capable of overcoming the reductive vision of some possibly harmed as being silent. Some moral philosophers have highlighted the role of the arts and the humanities in the fostering of a more empathetic imagination. With the aid of continental aesthetics (T. W. Adorno and M. Beistegui), we acknowledge the value of artistic imagination as a communicative faculty extending beyond the limits of discursive reason through non-conceptual tools. Taking it into account in moral inquiry effectively expands and provides a more detailed account on the wounded that are apparently silent, as it includes a variety of forms of communication as moral standpoints and conversational apostrophes. This finally leads us to reread James’ take on the notion of the cries of the wounded, to emphasize the necessity to understand it as a fruitful stance about inclusive moral inquiry exceeding the limits of a conceptual-discursive focus.
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- dc.identifier.citation Castella-Martinez S, Weber B. Artistic imagination and its role in moral progress: embracing William James’ cries of the wounded. Philos Soc Crit. 2024. 21 p. DOI: 10.1177/01914537241284964
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01914537241284964
- dc.identifier.issn 0191-4537
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/61368
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher SAGE Publications
- dc.rights Castella-Martinez S, Weber B. Artistic imagination and its role in moral progress: embracing William James’ cries of the wounded, Philosophy and Social Criticism. 2024. Copyright © The Author(s) 2024. DOI: 10.1177/01914537241284964
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- dc.subject.keyword Pragmatism
- dc.subject.keyword Artistic imagination
- dc.subject.keyword Moral progress
- dc.subject.keyword Conversation
- dc.subject.keyword Inclusion
- dc.subject.keyword Aesthetics
- dc.subject.keyword William James
- dc.subject.keyword Cries of the wounded
- dc.title Artistic imagination and its role in moral progress: embracing William James’ cries of the wounded
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