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Ep. 20: What is the Moral Imagination? + 15 Ways to Build it and Recover Our Humanity

The Moral Imagination

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The Idilic Imagination

When you remove the moral imagination there is a vacuum and the vacuum will get filled now. Eustis scrub doesn't stay that way he turns into western in the space trilogy his cold calculating intellect becomes taken over by his diabolical passion for desire for power. Irving Babbitt called it the idyllic imagination instead of a moral imagination when that's gone we get this idea that evil comes from the outside. If we can just restructure society the economy property family education whatever it may be we can eradicate evil and we can create heaven on earth according to Eric Vogelen.

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