Metaphysics as a guide to morals

Metaphysics as a guide to morals

by Murdoch, Iris (

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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,…

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  • Full title :Metaphysics as a guide to morals / Iris Murdoch.

Summary

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1993.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Penguin Books
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1993.

Notes

Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1992.

"This book is based on the 1982 Gifford lectures given at the University of Edinburgh"--Title page verso

The Physical Object

  • Description:520 pages ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0140172327, 9780140172324
  • oclc:ocm29469186
  • LC Classification:B72
  • Dewey Decimal:170

Table of Contents

Conceptions of unity. Art -- Fact and value -- Schopenhauer --Art and religion -- Comic and tragic -- Consciousness and thoughts I --Derrida and structuralism -- Consciousness and thought II -- Wittgenstein and the inner life -- Notes on will and duty -- Imagination -- Morals and politics -- The ontological proof -- Descartes and Kant -- Martin Buber and God -- Morality and religion -- Axioms, duties, Eros -- Void --Metaphysics: a summary.

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Subjects

Ethics ethics (philosophy) Ethics in literature Ethiek First philosophy Godsdienst Littérature -- Esthétique Metaphysics Métaphysique Morale Morale dans la littérature Philosophie Philosophie -- 20e siècle Philosophy

Writers

Murdoch, Iris (

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