TY - BOOK
T1 - Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
A2 - Hamalainen, Nora
A2 - Dooley, Gillian
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Descartes
KW - Kant
KW - Martin Buber
KW - Plato
KW - the Philosopher's pupil
KW - the green knight
KW - the message to the planet
KW - the book and the brotherhood
KW - The bell
KW - The book and the brotherhood
KW - A severed head
KW - The good apprentice
KW - The message to the planet
KW - The philosopher's pupil
KW - The green knight
KW - British and Irish Literature
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105007268813&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-18967-9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-18967-9
M3 - Anthology
SN - 978-3-030-18966-2
BT - Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London
ER -