CONSCIENCE AS MORAL IMAGINATION
Mark Johnson’s Contribution to Moral Discourse
Keywords:
Cognition, Conscience, Metaphor, Moral Deliberation, Moral ImaginationAbstract
This paper attempts to problematize the concept of conscience and offers a perspective from cognitive science. As an alternative, we shall employ the idea of moral imagination as proposed by Mark Johnson. Johnson recovers the place of the human body and employs it in moral imagination. This imagination helps us understand the processes of making decisions and choices in deliberation. Moreover, he also underscores the place of human experience in structuring our cognition and making sense of the world.
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