Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
Title Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals PDF eBook
Author Iris Murdoch
Publisher Penguin
Pages 529
Release 1994-03-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1101495790

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The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? Here, drawing on a novelist's insight into art, literature and abnormal psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologians—from Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derrida—to provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial questions.

Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals

Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
Title Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals PDF eBook
Author Nora Hämäläinen
Publisher Springer
Pages 286
Release 2019-06-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3030189678

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Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals was Iris Murdoch’s major philosophical testament and a highly original and ambitious attempt to talk about our time. Yet in the scholarship on her philosophical work thus far it has often been left in the shade of her earlier work. This volume brings together 16 scholars who offer accessible readings of chapters and themes in the book, connecting them to Murdoch’s larger oeuvre, as well as to central themes in 20th century and contemporary thought. The essays bring forth the strength, originality, and continuing relevance of Murdoch’s late thought, addressing, among other matters, her thinking about the Good, the role and nature of metaphysics in the contemporary world, the roles of art in human understanding, questions of unity and plurality in thinking, the possibilities of spiritual life without God, and questions of style and sensibility in intellectual work.

Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness

Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness
Title Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness PDF eBook
Author Maria Antonaccio
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 296
Release 1996-12
Genre Art
ISBN 9780226021126

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A HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF THE WRITINGS OF IRIS MURDOCH.

Existentialists and Mystics

Existentialists and Mystics
Title Existentialists and Mystics PDF eBook
Author Iris Murdoch
Publisher Penguin
Pages 580
Release 1999-07-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780140264920

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Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism, this volume includes incisive evaluations of the thought and writings of T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvior, and Elias Canetti, as well as key texts on the continuing importance of the sublime, on the concept of love, and the role great literature can play in curing the ills of philosophy.Existentialists and Mystics not only illuminates the mysticism and intellectual underpinnings of Murdoch's novels, but confirms her major contributions to twentieth-century thought.

Iris Murdoch, Philosopher

Iris Murdoch, Philosopher
Title Iris Murdoch, Philosopher PDF eBook
Author Justin Broackes
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 398
Release 2011-12-08
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0191021326

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Iris Murdoch was a notable philosopher before she was a notable novelist and her work was brave, brilliant, and independent. She made her name first for her challenges to Gilbert Ryle and behaviourism, and later for her book on Sartre (1953), but she had the greatest impact with her work in moral philosophy—and especially her book The Sovereignty of Good (1970). She turned expectantly from British linguistic philosophy to continental existentialism, but was dissatisfied there too; she devised a philosophy and a style of philosophy that were distinctively her own. Murdoch aimed to draw out the implications, for metaphysics and the conception of the world, of rejecting the standard dichotomy of language into the 'descriptive' and the 'emotive'. She aimed, in Wittgensteinian spirit, to describe the phenomena of moral thinking more accurately than the 'linguistic behaviourists' like R. M. Hare. This 'empiricist' task could be acheived, Murdoch thought, only with help from the idealist tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Bradley. And she combined with this a moral psychology, or theory of motivation, that went back to Plato, but was influenced by Freud and Simone Weil. Murdoch's impact can be seen in the moral philosophy of John McDowell and, in different ways, in Richard Rorty and Charles Taylor, as well as in the recent movements under the headings of moral realism, particularism, moral perception, and virtue theory. This volume brings together essays by critics and admirers of Murdoch's work, and includes a longer Introduction on Murdoch's career, reception, and achievement. It also contains a previously unpublished chapter from the book on Heidegger that Murdoch had been working on shortly before her death, and a Memoir by her husband John Bayley. It gives not only an introduction to Murdoch's important philosophical life and work, but also a picture of British philosophy in one of its heydays and at an important moment of transition.

Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch
Title Iris Murdoch PDF eBook
Author Peter J. Conradi
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 782
Release 2001
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780393048759

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Conradi assesses the intellectual and cultural legacy of the celebrated philosopher and writer. In addition to details of her personal life, he details her philosophical works and 26 novels. 50 photos.

The Sovereignty of Good

The Sovereignty of Good
Title The Sovereignty of Good PDF eBook
Author Iris Murdoch
Publisher Routledge
Pages 135
Release 2013-07-04
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 113457570X

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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. With a foreword by Mary Midgley.