Politics, Innocence, and the Limits of Goodness by Peter Johnson

Author:Peter Johnson [Johnson, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9781000706611
Google: 4tW_DwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 52149757
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE

As soon as philosophy gets into a novel, a work of literature, it ceases to be philosophy. It becomes something else; it becomes a plaything of the writer, and rightly so. The harder the writer works to present his ideas in abstract form, the less good his work of art is likely to become.

(Iris Murdoch, ‘On natural novelists and unnatural philosophers’)

A few months spent as a coolie building the Burma railway is worth more to one’s moral thinking than the reading of a great many novels or even factual reports about under-developed countries.

(R. M. Hare, Freedom and Reason)

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