Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy
Reframing the True, the Real, and the Good
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 February 2026
- ISBN 9780198940432
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 222x146x17 mm
- Weight 378 g
- Language English 691
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Short description:
Many philosophers have been gravitating to Iris Murdoch's philosophical work in recent years, turning to her ideas and attempting to make use of them in their thinking. Mason suggests that Murdoch is a more original and ambitious thinker than has yet been acknowledged, arguing that she offers a novel and appealing framework for moral philosophy.
MoreLong description:
Iris Murdoch was a thinker of extraordinary breadth and ambition. Over the course of her lifetime she published nearly thirty novels, numerous plays and poems, three philosophical monographs, and two collections of philosophical essays. However, the breadth and novelty of her philosophical contributions remain yet to be fully acknowledged.
Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy provides the first in-depth exploration of her metaethical thought, an examination of the background commitments about the nature of the ethical realm that underlie her thinking. She is, it suggests, not simply a novelist with picturesque and provocative thoughts on love and attention, but an ambitious and systematic thinker whose work challenges some of the most deeply-held assumptions of moral philosophy today. Murdoch, it suggests, is not a thinker who can be easily accommodated within contemporary metaethics—but she offers rich and original insights of her own.
Murdoch's insistence on the pervasiveness of the moral and the significance of ideas of perfection, it argues, leads to a sea change in metaethics. Implicit in her work are novel conceptions of key concepts such as truth, realism, and the Good, and these come together to form an attractive metaethics. The book examines her conceptions of these central philosophical ideas, as well as her answers to other questions that arise out of this system, such as the relation between knowledge and motivation and the purpose of morality.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Murdochian Metaethics
What Is Moral Philosophy For?
Truth and Truthfulness
Realism and Reality
The Ontological Argument and the Nature of the Good
Vision, Depth Knowledge, and Motivation
Morality and Purpose
Conclusion: Moral Systems
