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in famed platonist iris murdoch’s essay on god and good she says that ego prevents us from recognizing that another person is as real as oneself. attention turned outward toward others without interference from the ego allows us to liberate our souls from fantasy and attend to a reality in the illuminating light of transcendent Goodness
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