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Jan 8, 2022 · In a sentiment that calls to mind James Baldwin’s reflection on love and his haunting observation that “nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom,” Murdoch adds: The tragic freedom implied by love is this: that we all have an indefinitely extended capacity to imagine the being of others.
Sep 21, 2021 · In “Alternative Interpretations of Murdochian Love”, I then explore two contrasting interpretations of Murdochian love proposed by Velleman and Hopwood (2014, 2017) and discuss the ways in which each fails to do justice to the full epistemic role Murdoch assigns to love.
- Cathy Mason
- 2021
Jun 20, 2018 · For the love that Locke means is a love that opposes every other love as, once more, a potential bias: it is the love of truth. He that would seriously set upon the search of truth ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it.
- Sophie-Grace Chappell
- Sophie.Grace.Chappell@open.ac.uk
- 2018
Sir Walter Logie Forbes Murdoch, KCMG (17 September 1874 – 30 July 1970) was a prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence and wit.
Iris Murdoch writes with love about love, so there is no problem with her being self-refuting here. But it might be objected that her claims have no firm philosophical foundations, and that therefore she offers us only visions of love.
Murdoch describes the workings of love most touchingly in her novels. Her philosophizing of love, however, appears exactly from her discontent with Kant’s practical reason.
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1306 quotes from Iris Murdoch: 'Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.', 'I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.', and 'I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy.
