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Iris Murdoch | Footnotes to Plato | Murdoch’s view that morality is real and that, with the right conceptual resources, we can perceive it

For Sale on 1stDibs - Iris Murdoch, 1957, by SNOWDON. Offered by Howard Greenberg Gallery - churned.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

It started about ten years ago when I was walking around in the west village with my girlfriend Jolie. In the Housing Works on West 10th I saw a copy of The Good Apprentice. I'd never heard of Iris Murdoch before but I liked the description on the back. I started reading it that night, and was hooked. It's about search for meaning, has a big cast, it's mysterious, and has a hint of weird magic. As I read more of her books, I'd see that that could describe almost all of them. So, what happens…

Iris Murdoch on language as a vehicle of truth and art as a force of resistance to tyranny.

The 43-year marriage between writers Iris Murdoch and John Bayley - who believed in taking each other for granted - is a lesson to us all

With nearly one million Britons in the grip of dementia, it’s hardly surprising that writers and artists should increasingly tackle the subject. But can the arts ever illuminate a condition that by its very nature resists all understanding?

Iris Murdoch

Two letters from Iris Murdoch. To Raymond Queneau. St Anne’s Society Oxford [29 October 1949] I know you are very busy but may I nevertheless point out that I haven’t had a letter from you since (I think) July. I know too that I didn’t write for a long time, but I am hoping […]

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own. | Iris Murdoch Quote