(The Sovereignty of Good, 1970) You can see in these quotes Murdoch’s view of love ... itself compel us to act rightly. Think about Iris Murdoch the next time a friend of yours does or says ...

(The Sovereignty of Good, 1970) You can see in these quotes Murdoch’s view of love ... itself compel us to act rightly. Think about Iris Murdoch the next time a friend of yours does or says ...

So suggests the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, who set a high bar for the virtue. The Dublin-born writer, who died 25 years ago this month, envisaged love as something both highly ...

Iris Murdoch knew the risks of writing letters. In The Black Prince, her great novel about the destructive power of love, one character observes: “What dangerous machines letters are. Perhaps it is as ...

People who met the British novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) tended to want to describe her. She had big, round blue eyes, strawlike hair and a broad face with high cheekbones.

What does Iris Murdoch mean by "love," and how does she argue for her account of it? In briefest overview, she takes love to be a virtue, and as such an ideal of perfection. She begins with what ...

I love you very much.” The letters, which have been brought by Kingston University's Centre for Iris Murdoch Studies, will be available to researchers as well as the public. Dr Anne Rowe ...