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An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection and How to Be More Unselfish

The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself, to see and to respond to the real world in the light of a virtuous consciousness. This is the non-metaphysical meaning of the idea of transcendence to which philosophers have so constantly resorted in their explanations of goodness.
— Iris Murdoch

22h ago

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Every man is wise when attacked by a disease from which he is never likely to suffer.

2w ago

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User-Friendly Self-Deception: Philosopher Amélie Rorty on the Value of Our Delusions and the Antidote to the Self-Defeating Ones

The question is: how can we sustain the illusions essential to ordinary life, without becoming self-damaging idiots?

1mo ago

We are betrayed by what is false within ourselves.

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