Ideal Presence: How Kames Solved the Problem of Fiction and Emotion
Journal of Scottish Philosophy 9 (1):115-133 (2011)
| Abstract | The problem of fiction and emotion is the problem of how we can be moved by the contemplation of fictional events and the plight of fictional characters when we know that the former have not occurred and the latter do not exist. I will give a general sketch of the philosophical treatment of the issue in the present day, and then turn to the eighteenth century for a solution as effective as the best that are presently on offer. The solution is to be found in the account of ideal presence given by Henry Home, Lord Kames | |||||||||
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