M U L L A duel of ideas

Moral imagination as a slow art

Iris Murdoch  vs  Cheryl Strayed

Murdoch defined moral life as the work of seeing other people accurately. Strayed, in Tiny Beautiful Things, gave that practice a public face: read the letter slowly, take the asker seriously, refuse to perform the answer. Both treat moral imagination as something you train, not something you have.

Pick a person whose view you reflexively dismiss. What is the most charitable possible reading of why they hold it?

Whose side are you on?

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