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Single Idea 22348
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Full Idea
Is not ordinary human love ...striking evidence of a transcendental principle of good?
Gist of Idea
Ordinary human love is good evidence of transcendent goodness
Source
Iris Murdoch (The Sovereignty of Good [1970], II)
Book Ref
Murdoch,Iris: 'The Sovereignty of Good' [RKP 1974], p.75
A Reaction
Sorry to be mean, but I would say not. Love is tied up with sexual desire, and with family and tribal loyalty, and can be observed in quite humble animals. (Love, I should quickly add, is a very good thing indeed. Really).
The
22 ideas
from Iris Murdoch
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20765
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Man is a brave naked will, separate from a background of values and realities
[Murdoch]
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22591
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We know perfection when we see what is imperfect
[Murdoch]
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22341
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Literature is the most important aspect of culture, because it teaches understanding of living
[Murdoch]
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23563
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Philosophy moves continually between elaborate theories and the obvious facts
[Murdoch]
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22338
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An unexamined life can be virtuous
[Murdoch]
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22337
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Philosophy must keep returning to the beginning
[Murdoch]
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22339
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Love is a central concept in morals
[Murdoch]
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22343
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If I attend properly I will have no choices
[Murdoch]
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22340
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It is hard to learn goodness from others, because their virtues are part of their personal history
[Murdoch]
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22342
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Kantian existentialists care greatly for reasons for action, whereas Surrealists care nothing
[Murdoch]
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22345
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Moral philosophy needs a central concept with all the traditional attributes of God
[Murdoch]
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22348
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Ordinary human love is good evidence of transcendent goodness
[Murdoch]
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22346
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Moral reflection and experience gradually reveals unity in the moral world
[Murdoch]
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22347
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Appreciating beauty in art or nature opens up the good life, by restricting selfishness
[Murdoch]
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22350
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Only trivial virtues can be possessed on their own
[Murdoch]
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22349
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Art trains us in the love of virtue
[Murdoch]
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22351
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Only a philosopher might think choices create values
[Murdoch]
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22709
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We should first decide what are the great works of art, with aesthetic theory following from that
[Murdoch]
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22712
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Art and morals are essentially the same, and are both identical with love
[Murdoch]
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22713
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Love is realising something other than oneself is real
[Murdoch]
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22715
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Great art proves the absurdity of art for art's sake
[Murdoch]
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22714
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Because art is love, it improves us morally
[Murdoch]
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