How do you know to trust yourself – is the you today doing right by the you tomorrow?
Dear Aisha
Although cultivating forethought is good and necessary, the me today has to decide and act without the benefit of perspective the me tomorrow has. Thus, I hope that the me tomorrow will be forgiving of the me today if I promise to be mindful of the me tomorrow and not focus exclusively on current projects and needs. This will not always be easy given their immediacy but I can only do my best.
Stephen
Stephen Burwood
University of Hull, UK
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Encountering Murdoch’s philosophical work for the first time as an undergraduate was a liberation: here was a philosopher who appeared to remember that other people were central to the moral life – and not just other people as an undifferentiated number or as the object of my actions and exercise of my will but as people and so created a space in which compassion could reassert its proper place.
