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#34 - Against Dryness
Online Great Books Podcast
English - July 31, 2019 09:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 366 ratingsArts Education classicbooks greatbooks liberalarts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: #33 - The Loss of the Creature
Next Episode: #35- The Lord of the Rings Part 1
If you don't believe in anything, how can you make meaningful art?
Scott and Dr. Karl Schudt discuss their first encounter with philosopher-novelist Iris Murdoch. Her essay "Against Dryness" addresses that question, along with the ideas and forces that brought that question about.
Looking at art and of literature, Murdoch laments the loss of moral context, concepts and a full vocabulary for the examination of human personality. Scott and Karl agree.
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