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For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)

submitted 11 months ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works

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[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Who tf is Iris Murdoch?

The philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, however, insists that love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality. She begins two of her most famous essays with assertions of the significance of love in ethics, claiming in ‘The Idea of Perfection’ (1962) that ‘love is a central concept in morals’, and in ‘On “God” and “Good”’ (1969) that ‘we need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.’

Okay. Cool, ig.

[–] professormarshmallow@lemmy.cafe 1 points 11 months ago

I love her