"WHAT CAN I CALL THAT HURT?": Iris Murdoch, Interiority, and Moral Injury. Issue 3 (8th October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wiinikka‐Lydon, Joseph
• Is Part Of: Journal of religious ethics. Volume 49:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 495
• Page End: 517
• Publication Date: 2021-10-08
• Subjects: moral injury -- Iraq -- war -- Iris Murdoch -- interiority -- character; Ethics -- Periodicals; Religious ethics -- Periodicals; Morale religieuse; Religion; Théologie; 205
• DOI: 10.1111/jore.12359
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0384-9694

Abstract

Abstract: Moral injury is a term coined both to reflect the moral dimension of wartime experience and to critique overly clinical approaches to psychological harms originating in wartime. Originally defined not only with the tools of the behavioral sciences but also literature and philosophy, clinical approaches have come to dominate moral injury discourse over the past decade. This article argues for a return to interdisciplinarity by engaging metaphysics and ethics, and in particular Iris Murdoch's post‐Christian notions of the Good and void, to help better account for the experiences of veterans who claim that they hurt not only physically but also morally as a result of their wartime experience.