How long does it take to read The Sovereignty of Good?
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch takes about 1 hour 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 57 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1967. 106 pages, about 29,150 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring the notion of ‘vision’ to moral thinking can this distortion be corrected. This brilliant work shows why Iris Murdoch remains essential reading: a vivid and uncompromising style, a commitment to forceful argument, and a courage to go against the grain.
Subjects: Good and evil, Ethics, Addresses, essays, lectures, Fiction, general, Morale, Ethics (philosophy)
