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Single Idea 22338

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy ]

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

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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]