Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals : Philosophical Reflections
by Murdoch, IrisEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1994-03-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary
The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? Here, drawing on a novelist's insight into art, literature and abnormal psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologians--from Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derrida--to provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial questions.
Table of Contents
| Conceptions of Unity. Art | p. 1 |
| Fact and Value | p. 25 |
| Schopenhauer | p. 57 |
| Art and Religion | p. 80 |
| Comic and Tragic | p. 90 |
| Consciousness and Thought - I | p. 147 |
| Derrida and Structuralism | p. 185 |
| Consciousness and Thought - II | p. 217 |
| Wittgenstein and the Inner Life | p. 269 |
| Notes on Will and Duty | p. 292 |
| Imagination | p. 308 |
| Morals and Politics | p. 348 |
| The Ontological Proof | p. 391 |
| Descartes and Kant | p. 431 |
| Martin Buber and God | p. 461 |
| Morality and Religion | p. 481 |
| Axioms, Duties, Eros | p. 492 |
| Void | p. 498 |
| Metaphysics: a Summary | p. 504 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 513 |
| Index | p. 515 |
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