Catalogue of things I’ve found beautiful and/or interesting; updated when I’m procrastinating

1. Iris Murdoch — The sovereignty of good
   Especially the first chapter ‘The Idea of Perfection’ [here]

2. Jon Elster — Sour grapes – utilitarianism and the genesis of wants (from Utilitarianism and Beyond, a collection of essays edited by Bernard Williams and Sen)

3. John Broome — Weighing goods: equality, uncertainty, and time
   Ethics out of Economics is also wonderful

4. Partha Dasgupta — Time and the generations: population ethics for a diminishing planet

5. Andrew Miller — On not being someone else: tales of our unled lives
   Lovely essay by Joshua Rothman [here]

6. Iris Murdoch — Against Dryness
   “Our current picture of freedom encourages a dream-like" facility; whereas what we require is a renewed sense of the difficulty and complexity of the moral life and the opacity of persons. We need more concepts in terms of which to picture the substance of our being; it is through an enriching and deepening of concepts that moral progress takes place. Simone Weil said that morality was a matter of attention not of will. We need a new vocabulary of attention.”

7. Simone Weil — Gravity and Grace

8. Mark Grief — Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop [here]