CONCLUSION: FORMING A LEARNED IMAGINATION

We have seen how imagining a way of living and relating is an essential dimension of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. The “social imaginary” he discusses at length there and elsewhere represents, quite literally, the way people envision a social existence with one another.¹ It includes ways by which people envision or imagine the combined reality of a sense of self and ways of engaging the world, both of which speak to the relational prospects of fullness in one’s life. It is Bernard Lonergan who so effectively highlights the intimate connection he represents of subjective and social realities. In his