PHL 365 Lecture 14: Lecture 14
2 Apr 2016
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If you pity x, then you believe that x suffered unjustly. This puzzle cannot be solved deeply irrational responses does not make sense for people to respond the way they do yet we still do this. When we cry at the movies, we lose our minds temporarily temporary insanity: a lot of people think that is an extreme position, surely, we should make more sense of the emotions than this. There is an easy way to make perfectly good sense on our feelings. Engaging in another world a fictional world (film, novel) Fictionally true = true in the fictional world, true in the story". Our solution for ned starck is based on a belief that he suffered: it is fictionally true (true in the story) that ned suffered. People are skeptical about the belief that things are fictionally truth would arouse emotion. His paper is to defend these sorts of rejections (that this cannot be true)
