The Sovereignty of Good (Routledge Classics) by Iris Murdoch

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by Iris Murdoch

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This book is an essay on Platonic philosophy updated and rewritten for the modern age. (

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MWise | May 22, 2009 |

A collection of 3 essays that starts out with the toughest going. This is a book that I expect to re-read because it is both so insightful and sums up so much. (

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This short volume of Murdoch's moral philosophy is, in many ways, an important key to interpreting her work and ideas. (

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1970

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To Stuart Hampshire

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It is sometimes said, either irritably or with a certain satisfaction, that philosophy makes no progress.

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Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of good and bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's questions - and her own conclusions - can be found in the Sovereignty of Good. The Boston Reviewhailed these essays as 'her most influential pieces of philosophy'.

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