Tag: iris murdoch
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Day 392 of 1000: Fantasy vs Imagination in Crafting a Life
Fantasy is a creation of the inward-turned ego; imagination connects you with the world of reality.
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Day 361 of 1000: Imagining a Grand Narrative of Transforming through Grief
How I came to trading through grief after divorce, and why looking at it as a good story helps me cope.
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Day 359 of 1000: Two Things A Novel Can Do that Nonfiction Cannot
A novel presents life incarnate not just abstracted, and it gets at complicated many layered themes in roundabout inefficient ways. The Bell as an example.
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Day 331 of 1000: On Becoming a Primary Source
I don’t simply want to explain and reinterpret other people’s ideas. I want to develop and share my own independent philosophy.
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Day 321 of 1000: Authenticity in Later Life
Charles Taylor and Iris Murdoch on what’s good and meaningful. Authenticity not simply as individualistic pursuits.
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Day 248 of 1000: How Iris Murdoch Introduces a Main Character
Sharing a passage from Iris Murdoch’s novel A Word Child, in which she introduces the main character not with description but with sensory detail.
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Day 240 of 1000: Seeing Justly and Lovingly
British philosopher Iris Murdoch proposed that morality lies not in what actions we take but in how we cultivate a just and loving gaze.
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Day 201 of 1000: Seeking the unself
The need to overcome the ego: ideas from Iris Murdoch and Byung-Chul Han.
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Day 199 of 1000: Iris Murdoch on art as an entryway into virtue
Iris Murdoch on art as a way of overcoming self-absorption and purposelessness. How art evokes both truth and compassion.
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Day 150 of 1000: Love as negation
To love, you must strip away your self and your ego, writes Simon Critchley in Mysticism. Iris Murdoch believed this too.
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Day 147 of 1000: Murdoch and the reckful vs reckless distinction
Free writing about Iris Murdoch’s philosophy of the good alongside my concept of reckfull vs reckless living.
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Day 145 of 1000: Iris Murdoch on imagination vs. fantasy in love
What Iris Murdoch might say about the modern dating advice “don’t settle.” On fantasy vs imagination in love.