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Full Idea
An unexamined life can be virtuous.
Gist of Idea
An unexamined life can be virtuous
Source
Iris Murdoch (The Sovereignty of Good [1970], I)
Book Ref
Murdoch,Iris: 'The Sovereignty of Good' [RKP 1974], p.1
A Reaction
Nice. A firm rejection of the intellectualist view of virtue, to which most Greeks subscribed. Jesus would have liked this one.
Related Idea
Idea 343 The unexamined life is not worth living for men [Socrates]