Keywords
other is recognized
imaginative construction
simpathy
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Abstract
This paper explores the significance of Hume's moral viewpoint regarding the problem of the possibilities and conditions under which the other is recognized within plural societies. It proposes the following thesis: that the imaginativeconstruction of the other is the way to establish links of solidarity necessary to a tolerant way of living and the moral development of men and institutions. It is displayed in three moments. First it specifies tne context and character of Hume's moral inquiry. Secondly it approaches the operativa principie of the mind, simpathy, as the main source of moral distinctions. And lastly, it shows how simpathy, the imaginative figure in moral, constnicts, in a aesthetic and
reciprocal way, the other.
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