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The Sovereignty of Good

Iris Murdoch·1970·English

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Three essays arguing that moral life centers on attention rather than choice — that goodness is real and discovered through the discipline of truly seeing others, not invented by the will at the moment of decision.

I can only choose within the world I can see, in the moral sense of 'see' which implies that clear vision is a result of moral imagination and moral effort... We can only choose within the world we can see, and to this extent, our freedom is dependent on the quality of our consciousness.

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