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She said real love is the very difficult realization that something other than yourself is real, and built an entire moral philosophy on the discipline of truly looking.
He saw a world behind the world. The Forms are real; what we see are shadows.
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Plato the Form of the Good Iris Murdoch — Murdoch wrote an entire study of Plato's imagery, The Fire and the Sun, and built her own moral philosophy on a recognizably Platonic claim: that goodness is real, transcendent, and discovered through attention rather than invented by an act of will.
Ideas
Words
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
“We are anxiety-ridden animals. Our minds are continually active, fabricating an anxious, self-preoccupied, often falsifying veil which partially conceals the world.”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Key Moments
1954-1995
Writes twenty-six novels alongside her philosophy
1970
Publishes The Sovereignty of Good
c. 428 BCE
Born in Athens
c. 408 BCE
Meeting Socrates
399 BCE
Death of Socrates
c. 388 BCE
First Voyage to Syracuse
Works
The Sovereignty of Good
Apology
Crito
Euthyphro
Protagoras
Symposium
Meno
Phaedo
Gorgias
Republic
Phaedrus
Theaetetus