Summer Series No.9b - On "God" and "Good" by Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch — On "God" and "Good"
Wed 23 Sept
This is the second of our selections from Iris Murdoch's 1970 collection The Sovereignty of Good. Here she describes the "fat, relentless ego" that blocks us from seeing clearly the reality of the Other as a moral agent - and draws parallels between our idea of a transcendent God & the concept of the Good that she wants to use as the basis of a morality.
This book is the last one in our summer season - we're planning to move onto a longer read for the autumn - details here
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We're a reading group that welcomes all - young, old, completely new to philosophy or well versed, from keen students to those who've never darkened the door of a lecture room. We read both long & short texts, but you don't need to join at the very start of our longer reads - you can come along at any stage of the journey. Our conversations are lively, wide-ranging & respectful.
We usually head to the pub to continue the discussion after our meetings.