Circling Science

The Sovereignty of Good

First published
1970
Difficulty
Moderate
Where to start
The essay “The Idea of Perfection”.

Background

Earlier work that helps think about the practice, without being about it.

For the quality of your attention: how self-concern and fantasy get in the way of seeing others clearly, and how attention can become an ethical discipline.

Murdoch argues that self-concern and fantasy interfere with seeing other people clearly, and that attention, “a just and loving gaze directed upon an individual reality”, is a moral discipline in its own right.

In a circle, she helps with investigating the wish to appear insightful, caring or profound, and what that wish does to the quality of attention.

Questions to bring into a circle

  • What becomes visible when I’m less concerned with how I’m coming across?

Directions that build on it

  1. Authenticity as a social script

    Builds on 3 works · 3 funding routes

    How do relational communities develop shared scripts for being authentic, and what does that do to the practice?

Read alongside

Nothing here yet.

Further reading

Cite

Murdoch, I. (1970). The Sovereignty of Good.