Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Iris Murdoch
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Philosophy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Religion, God, Spiritual life or spirituality, Ethics, Metaphysics, Life, philosophy of
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals reads as a summa of Iris Murdoch’s lifelong reflections on moral philosophy, its complex meanings, and its difficult applications to modern life. Morality not as a small academic subject but morality as a serious, practical concern permeating human existence at every moment is her subject here. That is also the focus of Murdoch’s four other works of philosophy and is at the core of her twenty-five novels. Readers of her other works will encounter some familiar terrain here, beginning with Murdoch’s version of Platonism.
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