iris murdoch – Anne Z

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.

Charles Taylor and Iris Murdoch on what’s good and meaningful. Authenticity not simply as individualistic pursuits.

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.

Things I do as a chore vs things I do for joy and delight. Writing for delight. Studying philosopher’s lives. Newsletter topics.

British philosopher Iris Murdoch proposed that morality lies not in what actions we take but in how we cultivate a just and loving gaze.

The need to overcome the ego: ideas from Iris Murdoch and Byung-Chul Han.

Iris Murdoch on art as a way of overcoming self-absorption and purposelessness. How art evokes both truth and compassion.

To love, you must strip away your self and your ego, writes Simon Critchley in Mysticism. Iris Murdoch believed this too.

Free writing about Iris Murdoch’s philosophy of the good alongside my concept of reckfull vs reckless living.

What Iris Murdoch might say about the modern dating advice “don’t settle.” On fantasy vs imagination in love.