Novelist and Philosopher of Vision
Iris Murdoch
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An Irish-born novelist and Oxford philosopher who argued that moral life is a matter of attention and of seeing others justly.
Key work: The Sovereignty of Good (1970)
“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Morality happens in how we see, not only in what we choose.
Attention to something beautiful can quiet the anxious self.
To see another person justly is a moral task.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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