{"id":1137,"date":"2007-03-27T07:53:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2007-03-27T07:53:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T15:53:49","slug":"the-ethical-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-ethical-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ethical Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cbc.ca\/ideas\/massey\/images\/2006\/images\/somerville.jpg?w=620\" \/><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The bird does not sing because it has answers. \u00a0 It sings because it has a song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Chinese proverb quoted by Margaret Somerville in the first of her lectures on The Ethical Imagination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CBC Ideas is rebroadcasting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/ideas\/massey\/massey2006.html\">2006 Massey Lectures<\/a> given by ethicist Margaret Somerville entitle &#8220;The Ethical Imagination.&#8221; I lay in bed last night battling a fever and a six hour flu listening to her wonderful cadence as she delivered her argument that finding and conversing about a human ethics has much to do with imagination, story and poetry. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a wonderful listen, on all week on CBC Radio (which you can stream) and you can catch the first part on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/ideas\/massey\/massey2006.html\">Massey Lectures webpage.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As they do with all the lectures in the series, the CBC and House of Anasi Press has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anansi.ca\/titles.cfm?pub_subid=726\">published Somerville&#8217;s five talks<\/a>. \u00a0 If last night&#8217;s lecture was any indication, the book will make an excellent addition to my library.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[tags]CBC, Ideas, Margaret Somerville, ethics[\/tags]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The bird does not sing because it has answers. \u00a0 It sings because it has a song.&#8221; &#8212; Chinese proverb quoted by Margaret Somerville in the first of her lectures on The Ethical Imagination. CBC Ideas is rebroadcasting the 2006 Massey Lectures given by ethicist Margaret Somerville entitle &#8220;The Ethical Imagination.&#8221; I lay in bed last night battling a fever and a six hour flu listening to her wonderful cadence as she delivered her argument that finding and conversing about a human ethics has much to do with imagination, story and poetry. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a wonderful listen, on all week &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","category-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-il","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}