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Jan 1, 2001 · 268 ratings29 reviews. Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism, this volume includes incisive ...
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Apr 27, 2022 · Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1997. Includes bibliographical references and index. Literature and philosophy: a conversation with Bryan Magee -- Thinking and language -- Nostalgia for the particular -- Metaphysics and ethics -- Vision and choice in morality -- The novelist as metaphysician -- The existentialist hero -- Sartre's ...
Jan 1, 1998 · The existentialists of the title represent a style of moral decision-making, best illustrated by Jean-Paul Sartre, that centers on self-conscious free will; decisions within a mystical consciousness, like Plato's, flow naturally out of moral ideas, like goodness and beauty, that have enduringly focused its attention.
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Jul 1, 1999 · Existentialists and Mystics not only illuminates the mysticism and intellectual underpinnings of Murdoch's novels, but confirms her major contributions to twentieth-century thought.
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Jul 1, 1999 · Existentialists and Mystics not only illuminates the mysticism and intellectual underpinnings of Murdoch's novels, but confirms her major contributions to twentieth-century thought.
