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" The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves ' with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively... "
Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ... - Page 47
by Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 255 pages
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Dewey on Democracy

William R. Caspary - 2000 - 268 pages
...going out of our nature, and the identification of ourselves with the beautiful that Dewey on Democracy exists in thought, action or person, not our own....good must imagine intensely and comprehensively'" (AE:349). Individual sensitivity, like literary creation, functions "to perpetuate, enhance, and vivify...
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Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections

Jonathan N. Barron, Eric Murphy Selinger - 2000 - 364 pages
...empathic leaps of the imagination are. In his "Defense of Poetry," Percy Bysshe Shelley argues that "The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature. ... A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the...
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Thicker Than Blood: Friendship on the Buddhist Path

Maitreyabandhu - 2001 - 266 pages
...Buddhism, a move towards the heart of friendship. In a way it was another beginning. A RARE KIND OF LOVE The great secret of morals is love; or a going out...and pleasures of his species must become his own. Shelley, 'A Defence of Poetry' A friend of mine had a profound experience of the interconnectedness...
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Law's Interior: Legal and Literary Constructions of the Self

Kevin Crotty - 2001 - 266 pages
...offer edifying examples of moral conduct, then, as nourish the power to imagine the world and others. "A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely...another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of the species must become his own." Poetry "enlarges the circumference of the imagination," 67 which...
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The Necessity of Pragmatism: John Dewey's Conception of Philosophy

R. W. Sleeper - 2001 - 268 pages
...he writes: Shelley said, "The greatest secret of morals is love, or agoing out of our nature and the identification of ourselves with the beautiful which...good must imagine intensely and comprehensively." What is true of the individual is true of the whole system of morals in thought and action. While perception...
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El platonismo romántico de Shelley

Patricia Cruzalegui Sotelo - 2001 - 194 pages
...filosofía, funciona con el amor que es el que la impulsa a buscar a sí misma en las demás cosas: «The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and a identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, acrion, or person, not our...
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Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World

Giles Gunn - 2001 - 258 pages
...in Art as Experience in reference to Shelley's view of love, as "a going out of our nature and the identification of ourselves with the beautiful which...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own." 30 But if Dewey's image of the democratic embrace of the actual and the ideal attested to the importance...
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The Consolation of Otherness: The Male Love Elegy in Milton, Gray and Tennyson

Matthew Curr - 2002 - 188 pages
...Shelley. What else is Gray asking but what Shelley so lyrically requires of a better world of men? The great secret of morals is love; or a going out...pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.14 It is curious that Lytton Sells, in what is supposed to be a major critical review of Gray,...
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Regeneration: Journey Through the Mid-Life Crisis

Jane Polden - 2002 - 385 pages
...Penguin (2000). Loving Connectedness to Others 'The great secret of morals is love', wrote Shelley, 'or a going out of our own nature, and an identification...pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.'13 It is his loving sense of connectedness to Ithaca that sustains Odysseus through his wanderings...
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Slavery and the Romantic Imagination

Debbie Lee - 2017 - 314 pages
...Shelley, with great emotional flourish. This means, in no uncertain terms, "an identification" with a "thought, action, or person not our own. A man, to...place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination;...
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