Overview
essay prompt:
In her essay “The Idea of Perfection” Iris Murdoch argues for the importance of literature in cultivating our moral vision and making us better. Have you read a passage from a novel or a poem, or seen a film, a painting, or another piece of art that brought you to look at things in your life along the lines that Murdoch suggests? What did the experience teach you morally through cultivating your moral view? Would a Utilitarian or Kantian theory be sufficient to explain why the experience was moral?