Iris Murdoch
In Our Time: Philosophy
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The Concentration Camp Guard Who's Kind to His Children
One of things that anne said right at the start was she was just interested in what made other people tick. In a way, that gives strength to both the novels and the philosophy. One thing she wants to do in the philosophy is pay attention to the reality of moral life. So she mentions at one point a concentration camp guard who's a kindly father at home. And you think, this could almost be a character in a novel. But she 's using it to make a very different point. She says we're much more specialized creatures. We can be virtuous in some situations, but not in others. It's fascinating, is't i?
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