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What Murdoch took from this “admirable Platonist” was the conviction that seeing well is tantamount to doing well. Discerning the Good—the way the world truly is—whittles down our range of choices to just one.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
She thought of him as a source of knowledge rather than experience; a good, though not contemporary mind, a person rather than a man.
Shirley Hazzard, Brigitta Olubas, • Collected Stories
Murdoch believed that one of the core projects that each of us needs to undertake is to “unself”. “The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is.”
For Murdoch, there is no backstage self. As long as we
New Philosopher, Sense of Self, Matthew Beard
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. This is practiced through attention. Seeing the world as it truly is.” – Iris Murdoch
