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EPISODE · Apr 21, 2022 · 1H 1M

Purification and the Moral Life: Disciplining the Eyes

from The Minefield · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

There are habits of seeing which can corrupt our moral lives, or clutter our vision, or defile our imaginations. Just as there is a “contemptuous gaze”, as Iris Murdoch puts it, there are also “eyes tempered by grace”. So what might it mean to undergo a “fast for the eyes” in order to see the world more clearly?

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