Iris Murdoch

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• RTReverence for Tradition

  8 / 10
• MRMystical Receptivity

  8 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Philo of AlexandriaKEEL

  Allegorical reading; bridges Jewish scripture and Greek philosophy.

• Hugh of Saint VictorKEEL

  Flesh, reason, and contemplation are three eyes, each seeing differently.

• Seyyed Hossein NasrKEEL

  For Islamic perennialism, science divorced from the sacred is metaphysical violence.

• Avicebron (Ibn Gabirol)LIGHTHOUSE

  In Fons Vitae, even spiritual substances are composed of universal matter and form.

• Cheng YiCARTOGRAPHER

  For this Neo-Confucian, the investigation of things is itself moral cultivation.

• Albertus MagnusCARTOGRAPHER

  Aristotle baptized — natural philosophy as a path to divine wisdom.

Concepts where Iris Murdoch sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• Philosophy of love
  Is romantic love a feeling, a choice, a virtue, a contract — or something stranger than any of these?

Side-by-side with other philosophers, dimension by dimension.

• Iris Murdoch VS Philippa Foot

Short exercises in the same tradition as Iris Murdoch's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Premortem →

  Imagine the failure of your plan in vivid detail before you start.

• Negative visualization →

  Imagine losing what you have, briefly and concretely, to remember it's a gift.

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.