Obedience and reality in the philosophy of Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch

顺从在基督教思想史上扮演着核心角色，像阿奎那和圣本笃这样的神学家强调服从上级作为服从上帝的一种方式的重要性（ST3.105; Benedict & Fry 1998）。默多克和威尔都想保留顺从在伦理学中的核心地位，但他们都没有完全致力于基督教的形而上学教义。我认为，韦尔和默多克通过诉诸柏拉图式的形而上学，为基督教的服从理想提供了另一种图景，在柏拉图式形而上学中，“服从现实”的原则（1951年；1970年）使我们能够根据真理和善良生活。

Obedience plays a central role in the history of Christian thought, with theologians such as Aquinas and St Benedict emphasising the importance of obeying superiors as a way of obeying God (ST3.105; Benedict & Fry 1998). Murdoch and Weil both want to retain the central place of obedience in ethics, but neither is fully committed to all the metaphysical doctrines of Christianity. Weil and Murdoch, I suggest, offer one alternative picture to this Christian ideal of obedience by appealing to a Platonic metaphysic, where a principle of "obedience to reality"(1951; 1970) enables us to live according to Truth and Goodness.