Fiction, Lies that Tell Truth by Hugh Taft-Morales

Speaker: Hugh Taft-Morales

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https://youtu.be/77ao0Q_0_0Q?si=jEiZiAL6txgHCEhd

Near the end of his life, the novelist Abraham Rothberg said that “fiction is a lie that tells the truth.” Unlike so many politicians who lie to distort the truth and gain power, fiction only deceives us temporarily in order to share larger truths. It helps us suspend our disbelief so that we can imagine a world that doesn’t exist. Hugh Taft-Morales celebrates fiction as a door to the imagination. Hugh Taft-Morales is Leader of the Philadelphia Ethical Society, a humanist community dedicated to honoring the worth and dignity of every human being, cultivating character, nurturing ethical relationships and caring networks, building community capacity, and social justice..

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