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Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“the quote comes from her book, The Sovereignty of Good, which is just a long essay that she wrote in the late 60s. and she was basically trying to interpret and build upon Vey's ideas of attention and will,…”
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch
Guest on EconTalkAddiction, Faith, and the Limits of Willpower (with Meghan O'Gieblyn)
“And one of her most famous books is Gravity and Grace. And what that was, was basically her friend, who is a French Catholic farmer, Gustave Thibon, he basically went through her notebooks and took all of these isolated quotes.”
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
Guest on EconTalkAddiction, Faith, and the Limits of Willpower (with Meghan O'Gieblyn)