...always recognized in our scientific/technological society. According to the poet Shelley, for example, '[a] man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.'21 These remarks do not just affirm poetry; they indict 'objective' science. Science,...

...Bysshe Shelley argues that "The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature. ... A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely...pleasures of his species must become his own." The ethics of poetry, Shelley claims, consists in its way of compelling readers to identify with others,...

...going out of our nature, and the identification of ourselves with the beautiful that Dewey on Democracy exists in thought, action or person, not our own....good must imagine intensely and comprehensively'" (AE:349). Individual sensitivity, like literary creation, functions "to perpetuate, enhance, and vivify...

...nature"). But he goes on to define the object of that imaginative love in purely abstract terms as "the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own," thereby rejecting most of reality as unworthy of either artistic representation or imaginative identification....

...secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination; Source: 77ie Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, newly edited by Roger Ingpen...

...secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." 6. Cesare Zavattini,...

...secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or...and pleasures of his species must become his own. Shelley, 'A Defence of Poetry' A friend of mine had a profound experience of the interconnectedness...

...offer edifying examples of moral conduct, then, as nourish the power to imagine the world and others. "A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely...another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of the species must become his own." Poetry "enlarges the circumference of the imagination," 67 which...

...greatest secret of morals is love, or agoing out of our nature and the identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or...good must imagine intensely and comprehensively." What is true of the individual is true of the whole system of morals in thought and action. While perception...

...reference to Shelley's view of love, as "a going out of our nature and the identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own." 30 But if Dewey's image of the democratic embrace of the actual and the ideal attested to the importance...