Eliot And His Age : T.s. Eliot's Moral Imaginat... -

: Kirk identifies the subjects of Eliot's poem The Hollow Men as those lacking moral imagination, instead enslaved by appetites and "diabolic" distractions.

Kirk borrowed the term "moral imagination" from Edmund Burke, defining it as the that enables a person to see beyond private experience to the "right order" of the soul and society.

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: Rooted in Jean-Jacques Rousseau; it rejects old dogmas for "emancipation" from duty, often ending in disillusionment.

For those looking to study Kirk’s full analysis, several versions of the book are available: : Kirk identifies the subjects of Eliot's poem

: A delight in the perverse and subhuman, which Kirk saw in modern sensationalism and violence. Available Editions of the Report

Kirk uses Eliot's career to distinguish between three competing forces: : Guided by virtue, wisdom, and tradition. The Relevance of T

: Eliot championed "the permanent things"—enduring standards of conduct and belief—against the "ideological demigods" of progressivism and scientism. Three Types of Imagination