Résumé
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In aesthetic experience, we feel emotions for characters whom we know to be fictional. But don’t we need to know that something has really happened in order to be moved? We encounter the same type of contradiction in the religious experience of certain Christians: they claim to be moved by Jesus and his words without considering that he is truly the Son of God. Another paradox, also linked to the use of fiction, concerns the theory of knowledge: how do we succeed in achieving the correct solutions while employing fiction in our reasoning? The author’s intention is to emphasise the pertinence of behaving ‘as if’, an attitude initially thematized by Kant and developed in detail by the Neo-Kantian Hans Vaihinger in his The Philosophy of ‘As If’ (1911), to elucidate this type of paradox. Vaihinger’s ‘as if’ approach, whose sources and posterity are examined by Christophe Bouriau, establishes a meditation between several aspects Kantian philosophy and certain contemporary currents in analytical philosophy, which are given the umbrella title of ‘fictionalism’.
Auteur
Caractéristiques
Éditeur : Editions du Cerf
Publication : 24 janvier 2013
Intérieur : Noir & blanc
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Contenu(s) : ePub
Protection(s) : DRM Adobe (ePub)
Taille(s) : 676 ko (ePub)
Langue(s) : Français
Code(s) CLIL : 3126, 3081
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9782204116213
EAN13 (papier) : 9782204098601
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