: Kirk identifies the subjects of Eliot's poem The Hollow Men as those lacking moral imagination, instead enslaved by appetites and "diabolic" distractions.
: Eliot championed "the permanent things"—enduring standards of conduct and belief—against the "ideological demigods" of progressivism and scientism. Three Types of 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.
Kirk uses Eliot's career to distinguish between three competing forces: : Guided by virtue, wisdom, and tradition.
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