Eliot And His Age : T.s. Eliot's Moral Imaginat... [WORKING]

: It aims to teach human beings their true nature and dignity through literature and art.

: Eliot championed "the permanent things"—enduring standards of conduct and belief—against the "ideological demigods" of progressivism and scientism. Three Types of Imagination Eliot and his age : T.S. Eliot's moral imaginat...

: Rooted in Jean-Jacques Rousseau; it rejects old dogmas for "emancipation" from duty, often ending in disillusionment. : It aims to teach human beings their

: His work acted as a form of "Socratic self-criticism," disturbing a society drifting toward moral bankruptcy. : His work acted as a form of

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

In his seminal work Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century , Russell Kirk frames T.S. Eliot as the preeminent man of letters who used "moral imagination" to confront the spiritual and cultural decay of the 1900s. The Core Concept: Moral Imagination

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.