Self-Regulation and Political Confabulation
| Autor: | Kathleen Murphy-Hollies |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 92:111-128 |
| ISSN: | 1755-3555 1358-2461 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1358246122000170 |
| Popis: | In this paper, I discuss the nature and consequences of confabulation about political opinions and behaviours. When people confabulate, they give reasons for their choices or behaviour which are ill-grounded and do not capture what really brought the behaviour about, but they do this with no intention to deceive and endorse their own accounts. I suggest that this can happen when people are asked why they voted a certain way, or support certain campaigns, and so on. Confabulating in these political contexts seems bad because we do not get a fully truthful account of why some political choice was made, and so the reasoning behind the choice is under-scrutinised. However, I argue that if people have a virtue of self-regulation, confabulation in political contexts can actually be part of the process of coming to better understand our political choices and embody more consistently the political values which we ascribe to. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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