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Ideas for 'works', 'The Sovereignty of Good' and 'Carving Content at the Joints'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

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.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

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.