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Iris Murdoch quotes on morality

2 verified English passages where Iris Murdoch’ s thought meets questions of morality.

Iris Murdoch on morality

Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) approaches morality 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 morality most directly—useful for searches such as “iris murdoch quotes on morality.”

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  1. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
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    The Sublime and the Good (1959)
  2. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love… can once again be made central.