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Iris Murdoch in South Africa: attention and racial privilege

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The view that racially privileged people need to undertake self-directed inner work as one aspect of recognizing injustice has been criticized as morally and politically ineffectual. I explore and respond to these criticisms, from the context of South Africa, by drawing on Iris Murdoch and recent philosophical work on attention. Work on the self is a crucial component of responding properly to systemic injustice and one's position within it, and this includes paying attention to the self and to the world a person is trying to respond to in morally virtuous ways.

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  • Samantha Vice, 2026. "Iris Murdoch in South Africa: attention and racial privilege," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 84(1), pages 83-102, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsocec:v:84:y:2026:i:1:p:83-102
    DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2025.2485078
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