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Freedom Is Seeing Reality Clearly

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The simplest thing to say about Iris Murdoch is that she disagrees with almost everything Sartre says about freedom. One might imagine that she would disagree with almost everything Marcuse says as well. Probably she wouldn’t. Marcuse’s Frankfurt School colleague, Theodor Adorno, was an inspiration to Murdoch. What Marcuse might say about Murdoch I leave to the end of this chapter.

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© 2005 C. Fred Alford

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Alford, C.F. (2005). Freedom Is Seeing Reality Clearly. In: Rethinking Freedom. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403978783_5

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