For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays
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For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays
Iris Murdoch: ‘Unselfing’ is Crucial for Living a Good Life
Iris Murdoch: ‘Unselfing’ is Crucial for Living a Good Life | Philosophy Break
central to almost every tradition, especially of the West, is a dangerous warping of love in the hands of the self.
Most commonly known as the Golden Rule, it mistakes the reality of the self for the only reality, taking one’s own wishes, desires, and longings as universal and presuming that the other shares those precisely — negating the sovereign
... See moreMaria Popova • What Love Really Means: Iris Murdoch on Unselfing, the Symmetry Between Art and Morality, and How We Unblind Ourselves to Each Other’s Realities
Art and morals are... one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.