Review of The Sovereignty of the Good
There are some books that pack a mighty punch in the most minute of packages. The Sovereignty of the Good by Iris Murdoch is one such book. There is no fat in this book – it is pure, lean muscle and by the time one is finished reading it, the mind will have made some serious gains. Running a mere 101 pages of fairly large type and small margins, this book took so much effort to understand on my part and was so full of pearls of wisdom that it nearly beggars belief. Upon reading, one must deliberate on almost every single sentence – nothing is wasted, and the prerequisite depth of knowledge required to understand it is staggering. I will definitely have to revisit this classic of moral philosophy in later years when I am older and wiser, but I will still give my inadequate impression of it – just take it with a grain of salt. There are two ways, in my opinion, in which books can be considered great. Th...