: What we can learn about friendship from writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch #IndiaNEWS Making friends might come easier to some people than others, but in general, we all use the same criteria for

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What we can learn about friendship from writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch #IndiaNEWS
Making friends might come easier to some people than others, but in general, we all use the same criteria for forming relationships. We are drawn to people who share our interests, or who we simply like and admire.Once we make friends, we tend to hold them in high esteem. We speak positively about our friends, sometimes ignoring or downplaying their negative qualities. For many people, this positive outlook is the core of friendship – being a “good� friend is a matter of thinking and feeling positively about them, as well as acting in caring ways towards them.This type of friendship is what I will call “knowledge-free� – it involves no requirement to really know or understand the other person. On the flip side, this view of friendship suggests that having negative beliefs about your friends (even if those beliefs are warranted) makes you a worse friend.As an ethicist who has researched friendship and virtue, this view of friendship just does not seem right to me. It does not capture all of what we want from friendship. I have studied the work of British-Irish novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch – and I suggest that her writings provide us with a fuller view of friendship.Murdoch occupied a rare...Read more

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