#self-deception

¶ Murdoch’s mother-in-law: is moral change mostly a matter of learning to see someone differently?

I've been rereading Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good (1970) and I keep coming back to the example in its first essay. A mother-in-law, M, finds her son's wife, D, tiresome: a bit common, too familiar, juvenile. M behaves perfectly correctly throughout.…