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Attending differently to another person can alter moral understanding before a visible decision.
Try the short introduction first, or bring equivalent reading experience. Obtain the specified text before beginning the longer reading.
Rewrite a judgment of a fictional neighbour twice, identifying the assumptions you removed and the evidence you still lack.
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Introduces the question and vocabulary used in the longer selected reading.
Iris Murdoch · book
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.
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Find a copyThe Sovereignty of Good. Moral attention, imagination and the difficulty of seeing another person fairly. Her fiction and philosophy offer different ways to examine those problems.
Answer this question in your own words: Can moral change begin before an outward action changes?
Name the claim, then explain why a reader might accept it.
Attending differently to another person can alter moral understanding before a visible decision.
What to look for
Common mistake: Summarising a biography instead of explaining the argument.
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Iris Murdoch · book
Locate two passages about “Can moral change begin before an outward action changes” using the contents or index. Record their chapter/section names in your notes; this route assigns selections, not the whole work.
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Find a copyThe Sovereignty of Good. Moral attention, imagination and the difficulty of seeing another person fairly. Her fiction and philosophy offer different ways to examine those problems.
What would make your activity a convincing example?
Rewrite a judgment of a fictional neighbour twice, identifying the assumptions you removed and the evidence you still lack.
A useful response carries out the task: Rewrite a judgment of a fictional neighbour twice, identifying the assumptions you removed and the evidence you still lack. It records the observation or passage used and explains how it bears on the question.
What to look for
Common mistake: Presenting an opinion without showing the example it rests on.
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What is one conclusion this reading does not establish?
Test the boundary: A kinder description is not automatically a more accurate one.
A kinder description is not automatically a more accurate one.
What to look for
Common mistake: Treating a useful interpretation as an unrestricted fact.
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Background, different viewpoints, and further reading.
Moral attention, imagination and the difficulty of seeing another person fairly. Her fiction and philosophy offer different ways to examine those problems.
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.