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Mullane on Responsibility for Dreams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1966

J. F. M. Hunter
Affiliation:
University College, Toronto

Extract

In “Moral Responsibility for Dreams,” Harvey Mullane maintains that although there is something inappropriate about blaming people for their dreams, this is because we do not have very direct control over our dreams: but although this is the case, it is not the case that we have no control over them. We can work at having the right dreams, or not having the wrong ones, as we can work at blushing and not blushing and at loving our neighbour: and therefore presumably (although he does not say this) there must be a sense in which or a degree to which we can be responsible for what we dream. There are a number of aspects of this question, and of Mullane's treatment of it, which I would like to explore further.

Type
Discussions/Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1966

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References

* Dialogue, Vol. IV, No. 2, September 1965, pp. 224–29.