ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses creativity, imagination and intellectual virtue. A more specific focus of is imagination in the moral sphere, but conceptual questions will also be major concerns. One question is how imagination is related to truth. Still another is what special role imagination has in the moral sphere. Does it, for instance, create value? And should creativity play the kind of role that virtue does in a comprehensive understanding of human good? The imagination, and with it creativity, has various dimensions. One is insight—both analytical, yielding a sense of how similar things should be distinguished—and synthetic, yielding a sense of how different things may be connected. Another is foresight—an ability to see significant consequences events will have and, sometimes, to anticipate the apparently unpredictable. The notion of the intrinsically valuable is normative and belongs to ethics, aesthetics, and related fields that provide prescriptive standards. The notion of valuing is psychological and is descriptive rather than prescriptive.
