Where else indeed could genuine possibilities be found?’ At their best, he says, images represent the self and its world, actual or possible, in a fashion ‘that has an immediacy and concreteness which conceptualizations lack’. Because they are concrete, ‘images are more important for the exercise of human agency than are conceptual prescriptions’.9 David Harned reminds us that images and imagination enable us to make moral decisions because ‘we are free to act in some purposive fashion only within