- Lived:
- 1919–1999 · Dublin, London, Oxford
- Tradition:
- Moral philosophy in a Platonic key; the Oxford wartime quartet; philosophy and literature as one project
- The Big Idea:
- Morality is not mainly a series of choices. It is the lifelong, never-finished work of seeing — of paying just and loving attention to other people and the world, against the constant distortions of the self-flattering ego.
- In their words:
- "a just and loving gaze directed upon an individual reality" — her definition of attention, the moral faculty
- If you remember one thing:
- By the time a big moral choice arrives, most of the work is already done — done well or badly by the quality of attention you have been paying all along. We can only choose within the world we can see.