Between comprehensive imagination and compassionate imagination. Notes for a pedagogy
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The text asks about the possible functions of imagination in the ethical-political sphere and argues in favour of the pedagogical promotion of two different, albeit strongly related, forms of imagination: the comprehensive imagination, which involves developing “a broad way of thinking”, as Hannah Arendt characterises it, and the compassionate imagination, which involves an enhancement of not only the cognitive aspects of this faculty but also of the affective and empathic ones, as Martin Hoffman stresses. Finally, we review some authors and pedagogical traditions that have promoted one of these forms of imagination or, even better, a combination of both. We are talking about educational training that aims to broaden the mind and cultivate humanity, helping to form critical citizens committed to the search for fairer and more equitable forms of coexistence.
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