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22338 | An unexamined life can be virtuous [Murdoch] |
Full Idea: An unexamined life can be virtuous. | |
From: Iris Murdoch (The Sovereignty of Good [1970], I) | |
A reaction: Nice. A firm rejection of the intellectualist view of virtue, to which most Greeks subscribed. Jesus would have liked this one. |
22337 | Philosophy must keep returning to the beginning [Murdoch] |
Full Idea: Philosophy has in a sense to keep trying to return to the beginning. | |
From: Iris Murdoch (The Sovereignty of Good [1970], I) | |
A reaction: This is a sign that philosophy is not like other subjects, and indicates that although the puzzles are not solved, they won't go away. Also that, unlike most other subjects, the pre-suppositions are not part of the subject. |
23563 | Philosophy moves continually between elaborate theories and the obvious facts [Murdoch] |
Full Idea: There is a two-way movement in philosophy, a movement towards the building of elaborate theories, and a move back again towards the consideration of simple and obvious facts. | |
From: Iris Murdoch (The Sovereignty of Good [1970], I) | |
A reaction: Nice. Without the theories there is no philosophy, but without continual reference back to the obvious facts the theories are worthless. |