Social Imaginary, Ethics, and Methodological Individualism
It may be impossible to do ethics without engaging the individuating question, What should I do? or, more generally, How should I live? It may, in turn, be impossible to engage these questions without appreciating their impersonal dimension, a dimension that owes much to the operations of the social imaginary. Crudely put, imaginaries are complex systems of presumption—patterns of forgetfulness and attentiveness—that enter subjective experience as the expectation that things will make sense generally (i.e., in terms not wholly idiosyncratic).
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