By Leslie Pratch The British ethicist and novelist, Iris Murdoch states that, “Great art teaches us how real things can be looked at and loved without being seized and used, without being appropriated into the greedy organism of the self. This exercise of detachment is difficult and valuable whether the thing contemplated is a human [...]
By Leslie Pratch Previously, I have written about Iris Murdoch’s philosophy. It is important that great art teaches us how real things can be looked at and loved without being seized and used, without being appropriated into the greedy organism of the self. This exercise of detachment is difficult and valuable whether the thing contemplated [...]
By Leslie Pratch Iris Murdoch was a philosopher and novelist. The most notable of her essays in philosophy is the second of three in The Sovereignty of Good. Here, she illuminates the study of ethics through art. The problem, as she sees it, is that there “is no metaphysical unity in human life: all is [...]