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Vigen Guroian: Fairy Tales, Classical Learning, and The Moral Imagination

The Moral Imagination

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The Triumph of Beauty in the Nightingale

Listeners, I really recommend the book. It's a lovely book. And so you talk about different things going through fairy tales. The triumph of beauty in the nightingale and the ugly duckling, the goodness of goodness, the grim Cinderella,. John Ruskin's the king of the golden river and obedience and the path to perfection with George McDonald's the wise woman.

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