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Vigen Guroian: Fairy Tales, Classical Learning, and The Moral Imagination
The Moral Imagination
The Ugly Duckling and the Moral Imagination
I think it's a Plato has something to this effect that if we lose the concept of the good and music and dance, the whole educational project Greek or foreign is compromised. If your argument is right, it does connect to the moral imagination and then an understanding of how to live in the world of good, evil and complexity. What do you learn from the ugly duckling? You don't learn that he is suicidal. No, but you learning from the ugly Duckling is that he has he has courage in the deepest sense. He has courage, the courage to move toward the good and the beautiful and the true. That's what he's doing. It also comes up, you see
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