The Sovereignty of Good

Iris MurdochOnline resourcebook

Moral attention, imagination and the difficulty of seeing another person fairly. Her fiction and philosophy offer different ways to examine those problems.

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    Moral attention, imagination and the difficulty of seeing another person fairly. Her fiction and philosophy offer different ways to examine those problems.

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