Earlier this week, I participated in a leadership workshop in which we talked about the importance of empathy. This led me back to a concept to which the @humetricshss team and I return regularly - ethical imagination.
#EthicalImagination moves beyond empathy, which means to suffer along with another, to feel one's way into the position of another. Empathy is a condition for the possibility of ethical imagination. But ethics concerns character; it is a question of disposition. Imagination moves beyond present reality toward what is possible. It is a turn toward justice - it animates just actions.
Ethical Imagination is the capacity to imagine one’s way into the position of another in order to discern and enact together the just conditions for mutual flourishing.
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@cplong @humetricshss Very much enjoyed reading this. I wonder if Ethical Imagination shares the same dimensions as Altruism? Here is a recent piece I wrote about altruism within the context of leadership;
https://www.formresilience.com/what-can-a-matriarch-teach-us-about-leadership/
