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Imagination




   Crucial to thinking is the imagination, because even where there is a crisis in understanding, where old categories of thought collapse, people can judge and understand what is happening. Imagination allows us to view things in their proper perspective and judge them without the benefit of a pre-given rule or universal.



  Imagination puts close what is at a distance so we can see and understand it without bias and prejudice, to bridge the abysses of remoteness to understand what is far as it were our own affair.



  Without this understanding we would never be able to take our bearings in the world.




    It’s the only ‘inner compass’ we have.



  With the use of imagination we can come to terms with a reality that may, initially, defy human comprehension.



D’Entreves

Hannah Arendt

The Myth of Evil- Philip Cole