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Ethics Of Attention Podcast

The Iris Murdoch Society podcast

CHAPTER

The Mysticism of Simon Vale and Murdoch

In the coda of your book, you talk about a real life example. You also discuss Murdoch's idea of spiritual dimension of swimming. And you connect that very beautifully with questions of attention. Did you originally think that actually you wanted to end on that particular example? Or did you feel that it just kind of flowed naturally? Well, at first, I thought it might be a section in a chapter, but then again, it became a little bit less academic and so I thought I needed to have its own space.

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