We may have to cultivate our moral imagination, putting ourselves in the shoes of people who hate us.
In his case, at least, it was something else - perhaps the absence of a moral imagination.
Others simply show no response at all, so profound is the denial, or the failure of moral imagination.
That we keep going around in circles about this probably testifies to the steepness of the challenge he poses to the moral and historical imagination.
But there is another utopianism, he added, that "is a necessity of the moral imagination."
Stories had connected with the memories of those who read them and, too, enlivened their moral imagination.
Outer freedom is attained by permeating our deeds with moral imagination.
Kirk, who died in 1994, wrote essays on John Adams and moral imagination.
This immersion in the perspective of the other is sometimes called "moral imagination," and it is hard.
His book is rich in insight and moral imagination.