The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch

Author:Iris Murdoch [Murdoch, Iris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-03-08T05:32:42+00:00

`Your theory is schizophrenic, you talk about a crisis of authority and men being puppets and going through the fire and the next moment it's spiritual energy and new people with new happiness - But what happens in between? Your ideas lead straight into tyranny - and you imagine you can see the ideal society just beyond it! You said you weren't a utopian –‘

‘The utopian impulse is essential, one must keep faith with idea that a good society is possible -'

‘There is no good society,' said Gerard, 'not like you think, society can't be perfected, the best we can hope for is a decent society, the best we can achieve is what we've achieved now, human rights, individual rights, and trying to use technology to feed people. Of course things can improve, there can be less hunger and more justice, but any radical change will be for the worse - and your dreams will only make us lose what we have.-‘

‘Do you seriously mean,' said Crimond, 'that you cannot conceive of any social system which is better than western parlamentary democracy?'

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