Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (World Philosophers and Their Works)
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- Author: Iris Murdoch
- First Published: 1992
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Religion, God, Spiritual life or spirituality, Ethics, Metaphysics, Life, philosophy of
Context
Two major contemporary philosophical currents are apparent in Iris Murdoch’s work, both in her novels and in her critical and philosophical writing. Early in her career, she met Jean-Paul Sartre; she wrote her first book, Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), about him. At about the same time, she became engrossed in the philosophy of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Sartre, the leading existentialist, was obsessed by the futility of human existence as well as by the loneliness of it. His nihilism as well as that of writers Albert Camus and Samuel...
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