Ethics
Attention and Its Conditions: Is Virtue Ethics an Aristocrat's Ethics?
Most people are too busy surviving to cultivate an inner life. Does that make virtue ethics, from Aristotle to Iris Murdoch, a philosophy for the leisured few? The objection lands with very different force on each, and in its strongest form it turns from a refutation into a political demand.
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For Iris Murdoch, metaphor is not ornament but the medium of moral vision. In “The Sovereignty of Good over Other Concepts,” she turns Plato’s Sun into an argument about attention, humility, and a Good that is real, indefinable, and always further on.
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