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In this presentation, academic scholar, John Slifko includes key research findings in cognitive science from Mark Johnson's book, "Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics" to reveal how imagination has an essential role in ethical deliberation. By a ‘Moral Law theory’ Johnson shows how every aspect of morality is imaginative— our fundamental moral concepts, our understanding of situations, and our reasoning about those situations are all imaginatively structured and based on metaphor.

The following information has been adapted from the book, Western Esotericism: A Concise History, written by Antoine Faivre, and translated by Christine Rhone. The presentation was created by John Slifko, PhD. John holds a BA from San Francisco State in Geography, an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA, and most recently, he earned his Ph. D. in Geography at ucla. He is Co-Director of the Roosevelt Center for the Study of Freemasonry and Civil Society, on the Board of Directors of project AWE, and similarly for the Hannah Mather Crocker Society, Notre Dame University. His major research interests are the development and origins of early American civil society, geographically-integrated history of Freemasonry, geographic place, democratic praxis and John Dewey. if you liked this piece, please visit: TheRooseveltCenter.org