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Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.
-Iris Murdoch
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Love Is The Last And Secret Name

Iris Murdoch
Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.
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A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. i mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks about our relation to god and the universe; it has an ordering of all the virtues, not only political virtues but moral virtues as well, including the virtues of private life, and the rest. now we may feel philosophically that it doesn't really cover everything, but it aims to cover everything, and a secular doctrine does also.
Religious Mean Political
We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. the name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. and in ancient thought the name itself has power, so that to know someone's name is to have a certain power over him. and in some societies, as you know, there was a public name and a real or secret name, which would not be revealed to others.
Attitude Real Names
Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. the pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. it wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
Country Humility Pride
It is the privilege of the rich to waste the time of the poor to water with tears in secret a tree that grows in secret that bears fruit in secret that ripened falls to the ground in secret and manures the parent tree oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret the sap rising and the tears falling.
Fall Water Hatred
But what will happen even if we do burn down the jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise god, to pray, to teach, to utter god's name? they will still keep doing it in secret. if we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before god.
Names Secret Praying
Love is real, real is love, love is feeling, feeling love, love is wanting to be loved. love is touch, touch is love, love is reaching, reaching love, love is asking to be loved. love is you, you and me, love is knowing, we can be. love is free, free is love, love is living, living love, love is needing to be loved.
Love Real Knowing
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