tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873156.post114079692496660682..comments2007-02-20T23:15:26.345-05:00Comments on PeaceBang: Torture And the Moral Imaginal LifePeaceBanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431551457505981195noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873156.post-1141079871640046922006-02-27T17:37:00.000-05:002006-02-27T17:37:00.000-05:00Some people have intimated that growing up with te...Some people have intimated that growing up with television has damaged people's ability to imagine things on their own. Ya think?<BR/>Certainly compassion is at least partly learned -- often through practise (Fay Weldon says the purpose of novels is to practise compassion.) Our Pres probably didn't get much instruction in campassion from his mother....Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11043979954690318406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873156.post-1140809848854569002006-02-24T14:37:00.000-05:002006-02-24T14:37:00.000-05:00From another P.B. (Shelley):"A man, to be greatly ...From another P.B. (Shelley):<BR/><BR/>"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others. The pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause. Poetry enlarges the circumference of the greenseagirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09986442740731564534noreply@blogger.com