Iris Murdoch on love
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) approaches love within moral philosophy. Moral progress involves just and loving attention to reality, aided by art and the idea of the Good. Systematically, the teaching links attention, virtue, art into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets love most directly—useful for searches such as “iris murdoch quotes on love.”
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