“Imagination” e “moral sense”: un contributo alla teoria dell’immaginazione in Shaftesbury

This essay holds that the imaginative capability of the mind and its outputs  occupy an important place in Shaftesbury's moral and aesthetic theory. Furthermore, it shows how reading Shaftesbury's work as centred on the relationship between imagination and moral sense can point out, apart...

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Main Author: Andrea Olivieri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2012-05-01
Series:Aisthesis
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Online Access:http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/11027
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spelling doaj-18fcae78a6e94fcba632a4d26d2876ce2020-11-24T22:10:37ZengFirenze University PressAisthesis2035-84662012-05-014210.13128/Aisthesis-110279966“Imagination” e “moral sense”: un contributo alla teoria dell’immaginazione in ShaftesburyAndrea OlivieriThis essay holds that the imaginative capability of the mind and its outputs  occupy an important place in Shaftesbury's moral and aesthetic theory. Furthermore, it shows how reading Shaftesbury's work as centred on the relationship between imagination and moral sense can point out, apart from its obvious debt to Platonism, what Shaftesbury's ideas owe to Empiricism.http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/11027ShaftesburyImaginationEmpiricismMoral.
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“Imagination” e “moral sense”: un contributo alla teoria dell’immaginazione in Shaftesbury
Aisthesis
Shaftesbury
Imagination
Empiricism
Moral.
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title “Imagination” e “moral sense”: un contributo alla teoria dell’immaginazione in Shaftesbury
title_short “Imagination” e “moral sense”: un contributo alla teoria dell’immaginazione in Shaftesbury
title_full “Imagination” e “moral sense”: un contributo alla teoria dell’immaginazione in Shaftesbury
title_fullStr “Imagination” e “moral sense”: un contributo alla teoria dell’immaginazione in Shaftesbury
title_full_unstemmed “Imagination” e “moral sense”: un contributo alla teoria dell’immaginazione in Shaftesbury
title_sort “imagination” e “moral sense”: un contributo alla teoria dell’immaginazione in shaftesbury
publisher Firenze University Press
series Aisthesis
issn 2035-8466
publishDate 2012-05-01
description This essay holds that the imaginative capability of the mind and its outputs  occupy an important place in Shaftesbury's moral and aesthetic theory. Furthermore, it shows how reading Shaftesbury's work as centred on the relationship between imagination and moral sense can point out, apart from its obvious debt to Platonism, what Shaftesbury's ideas owe to Empiricism.
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Imagination
Empiricism
Moral.
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