Titlebook: Reading Iris Murdoch‘s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals; Nora Hämäläinen,Gillian Dooley Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Au

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,‘I Think I Disagree’: Murdoch on Wittgenstein and Inner Life (, Chapter 9),he presents substantial theses threatening the reality of inner life. Murdoch’s misreading of Wittgenstein as a constructive philosopher may be what worries Medlin, and it also prevents Murdoch from seeing Wittgenstein as an ally in the endeavour to demonstrate the morally transformative potential of our inner lives.

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,‘We Are Fantasising Imaginative Animals’ (, Chapter 11),laining some of the terminology and adding missing elements. Another aim is to relate the remaining sections of this chapter to the earlier discussion of Kant and Plato. However, I begin by briefly exploring my own reading experience of . and suggesting some solutions to the difficulties experienced when reading the work.

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The Metaphysics of Morals and Politics (, Chapter 12),ey rely upon the security that is provided by political order. Politics, for Murdoch, in the wake of the collapse of Marxist regimes in Eastern Europe, is not to be utopian, but rather is to avoid repression and injustice and secure order and justice to safeguard individuals, who, in their personal lives can pursue perfection.

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,Iris Murdoch’s Ontological Argument (, Chapter 13),ons, and which remains mysterious. The argument is better construed as concerning the moral reality of human beings as sacred or inviolable, and the moral demands this makes upon us—a reality that is proximate, palpable, inescapable and highly familiar.

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Fields of Force: Murdoch on Axioms, Duties, and Eros (, Chapter 17),doch, I suggest, is better understood as a methodological descriptivist. She is not simply offering us an alternative moral theory, but a radically different approach to the business of moral philosophy itself.

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Which Void? (, Chapter 18),ngs of her ethics of Eros. Murdoch draws heavily on Simone Weil’s work here, but a closer look at the chapter discloses a dissonance in her use of ‘void’, which in turn reveals a difference between these two thinkers.

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Reading ,: An Introduction, defy the expectations of her readers. In this introduction we review some central aspects of the book: the nature of Murdoch’s philosophical ambitions, her attempts at rethinking faith and spirituality in a secular world, her work on the metaphysical underpinnings of our thinking, the roles of art

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The Gifford-Driven Genesis and Subliminal Stylistic Construction of ,iversity and into her comments in letters and journals about her experience of writing and giving those lectures. It considers the reception of both her lectures and the ensuing book before turning to a close reading of .. It therefore moves from a macro-view of the text, looking at how . came to be

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Unity and Art in a Mood of Scepticism (, Chapter 1),about methodology. This chapter aims to show how this peculiar opening, rightly understood, functions as an entrance to an understanding of the book as a whole, and to make clear why the opening chapter’s focus on the concept of . is the right place to start. Murdoch’s view of metaphysics is that we