Purification and the Moral Life: Disciplining the Eyes
There are habits of seeing which can corrupt our moral lives, or clutter our vision, or defile our imaginations. Just as there is a âcontemptuous gazeâ, as Iris Murdoch puts it, there are also âeyes tempered by graceâ. So what might it mean to undergo a âfast for the eyesâ in order to see the world more clearly?
The Minefield
enDecember 29, 2022