For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love
  • underline960@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    Who tf is Iris Murdoch?

    The philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, however, insists that love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality. She begins two of her most famous essays with assertions of the significance of love in ethics, claiming in ‘The Idea of Perfection’ (1962) that ‘love is a central concept in morals’, and in ‘On “God” and “Good”’ (1969) that ‘we need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.’

    Okay. Cool, ig.