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Tears and Fiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Colin Radford
Colin Radford
Affiliation:
University of Kent
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Philosophy , Volume 52 , Issue 200 , April 1977 , pp. 208 - 213
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1977

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References

1 In ‘How can we be moved by the fate of Anna Karenina?’, Proc. Arist. Soc., Suppl. Vol. (1975).Google Scholar

2 In Part One of his reply to my paper (ibid.).

3 Though how we can feel concern for her is yet another, related, problem. She cannot really suffer because she is fictional, we cannot be harmed because the monster is fictional.

4 The fact that we cannot so distance ourselves, or it is inappropriate to do this, when the events are real (and we know this) or the work is a history (and we know this) lends support to my thesis, and does not, pace Weston, show that it is a vulgar confusion to try to throw light on our responses to fiction by comparing them with our responses to history, news, or life itself.