Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nora Hämäläinen, Gillian Dooley.
• Editors: Hämäläinen, Nora; Dooley, Gillian
• Contents: Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: The Gifford-driven genesis and subliminal stylistic construction of Metaphysics as a guide to morals Chapter Three: Unity and art in a mood of scepticism (MGM Chapter 1) Chapter Four: Murdoch's question of the work of art: the dialogue between Western and Japanese conceptions of unity (MGM Chapters 1 & 8) Chapter Five: Fact and value (MGM Chapter 2) Chapter Six: Schopenhauer and the mystical solution of the riddle (MGM Chapter 3) Chapter Seven: Metaphysics as a guide to morals: The debate between literature and philosophy Chapter Eight: Disciplines of attention: Iris Murdoch on consciousness, criticism, and thought (MGM Chapters 6-8) Chapter Nine: Iris Murdoch as educator Chapter Ten: 'I think I disagree': Murdoch on Wittgenstein and inner life (MGM Chapter 17) Chapter Eleven: 'We are fantasising imaginative animals' (MGM Chapter 11) Chapter Twelve: The metaphysics of morals and politics (MGM Chapter 12) Chapter Thirteen: Iris Murdoch's ontological argument (MGM Chapter 13) Chapter Fourteen: Vision and encounter in moral thinking (MGM Chapter 15) Chapter Fifteen: The urge to write: Of Murdoch on Plato's Demiurge Chapter Sixteen: Fields of force: Murdoch on axioms, duties, and Eros (MGM Chapter 17) Chapter Seventeen: Which void? (MGM Chapter 18).
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (284 pages)
• Subjects: Philosophy; Metaphysics; British literature; Literature; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Language Arts & Disciplines -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Literature & literary studies; Philosophy -- Metaphysics; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030189679
• Related ISBNs: 9783030189662
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