The Sovereignty of Good

Warning: contains major spoilers for the film Paterson This is the second of Iris Murdoch's philosophical works that I've read in the last month. It is not quite as good as The Fire and the Sun, written a bit later, but I still liked it very much. I can see why people are currently reevaluating her a......more

one of the most beautiful, if somewhat shaky, attacks on the cult of personality/self and the neo-Kantian fetishism of the empty, masculine will i've read. highly recommend it to Simone Weil simps and decreation obsessed degenerates like myself. also if you're a Levinas fan and have wet-dreams about......more

You read Simone Weil, you don’t necessarily agree with everything she says, she maybe takes things to the extreme, but you read Weil, you are open to what she says, and lo and behold, you, you little Grinch you, feel your heart grow three sizes! (… at least for a time until you go back to your doom......more

Iris Murdoch’s best known work on philosophy consists of three lectures that she delivered in 1964, 1967 and 1969. While each essay stands on its own, the three essays develop a common theme, which is a defense of Plato’s concept of the Good. Her approach is not to endorse Plato’s theory of forms in......more

This volume collects The Idea of Perfection, On "God" and "Good", and The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts. In these papers Murdoch undertakes, among more minor aesthetic tasks, to draw up and criticize a particular view of the human personality, tracing it back through its philosophical and s......more