Certainly, they know what such an expansion of moral imagination is from a Western Enlightenment perspective, and as a fellow inheritor of that perspective, I share their view.
Mr. Sheridan and Mr. Heron portray the borstal years as an expansion of Behan's imagination, not a containment.
The tone of Paul Bloom's review of Robert Wright's "Evolution of God" (June 28) suggests that perhaps both he and Bloom, in assuming that God does not exist, take an untenable step in assuming that a "God's-eye view" of an "expansion of the moral imagination" does exist, and that in conducting their historical survey, which transcends specific civilizations, they know what it is.
Wright argues that each of the major Abrahamic faiths has been forced toward moral growth as it found itself interacting with other faiths on a multinational level, and that this expansion of the moral imagination reflects "a higher purpose, a transcendent moral order".
And yet, I do not believe that we will have the will, or the staying power, to complete this work without something more and that is the continued expansion of our moral imagination, an insistence that there is something irreducible that we all share.
And yet, I do not believe that we will have the will, or the staying power, to complete this work without something more and that is the continued expansion of our moral imagination; an insistence that there is something irreducible that we all share.
The other is Obama's assertion of "the continued expansion of our moral imagination".
The significance of this one-sidedness is that it fosters the expansion of self via imagination to fill the other half of the relationship.
14 years later and he's still in Echo Park, right on the edge of Downtown LA. "More than any other that I've experienced, it is a city created by and for the expansion of people's imaginations," he says.
