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Imagination is our gift as a species to move purposefully towards what does not yet exist and walk willingly through the unknown to get there. It has a power to change what seems possible and so to shift what becomes possible. Moral imagination looks inward as much as it acts outward. It works with a long sense of time and opens its eyes to... See more
Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project
She reflected on how it must be for people in greater positions of power. ‘What if you’re having to make a decision about whether to bomb Libya or not?’ she mused. ‘Would it be helpful to imagine yourself as the mother of a child that might get killed as a result, or would that make it harder to make that decision? If you were too connected to your
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Further, as Zagzebski proposes, a crucial element in identifying moral exemplars is conscientious reflection: reasoning that melds the theoretical and the personal, considers the past and future, and takes place over a span of time and emotional states. Moral exemplars, she writes, are people we admire after this kind of reflection. And a key... See more
Tim Gorichanaz • Finding Heroes In A Messy Digital World | NOEMA
Collectively, we also need pictures of societal futures that go beyond today’s status quo. They complement but do not replace the necessary work of activism that fights against the injustices of the present. We also need new answers to new problems—the vulnerabilities caused by a more connected world, or by potentially lethal artificial
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Imagination is a muscle 💪🧠
People will tell you that imagination is a skill or a talent that some people in society have and others don’t. Some people in society like filmmakers, advertisers, creative directors are the “imaginative people” and the rest need to stick to their lanes and their jobs.... See more
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The perspective Moral Imaginations brings is the perspective of future generations, the perspective from past ancestors and the perspective of non-human beings including the land and place — so these different lenses also allowed people to zoom out and explore the future of Watchet from these different angles, allowing them to connect with what... See more
Phoebe Tickell • Cultivating Everyday Imagination
Some of the worst cases of PTSD you will ever see are not from external trauma, but from self-inflicted moral injury.
That is, people who have behaved so shamefully that they can't face the person they've become, but also can't accept the loss of their innocent self-image. https://t.co/LOUYoZeY9W
Imagination is a muscle.
The more you practice it, the more you expand your vision of what the world could be like, the more you build that inner will that the world must and WILL be different.
What future/s are you dreaming of right now?
#ImaginationActivism... See more
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