I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
Iris Murdoch (1967). “The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts”, p.33, Psychology Press
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