Ms. Murdoch’s Existentialist Foil in The Idea of Perfection

Social Sciences Research Network (2021)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In her Idea of Perfection, Ms. Murdoch criticizes what she takes to be an existentialist conception of ethics. This conception is not, however, existentialist, either in the sense in which Sartre characterized it, or any of those other existentialists from Dostoyevsky onwards. Whether her alternative ethic is better or worse than that of the existentialist, I do not know; but the one is not in contrast to the other.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive

External links

  • This entry has no external links. Add one.
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Is Iris Murdoch a Closet Existentialist? Some Trouble with Vision, Choice and Exegesis.David Robjant - 2013 - European Journal of Philosophy 21 (3):475-494.
Is an Existentialist Ethics Possible?Jonathan Crowe - 2004 - Philosophy Now 47 (Aug/Sept):29-30.
Sartre, romantic realist.Iris Murdoch - 1980 - New York: Barnes & Noble.
The Existentialist Political Myth.Iris Murdoch - 1989
Iris Murdoch, gender and philosophy.Sabina Lovibond - 2011 - New York: Routledge.
Perfection and Fiction : A study in Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy.Frits Gåvertsson - 2018 - Dissertation, Lund University
Iris Murdoch.Bradford Cokelet - 2013 - In In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell.
Moral Vision: Iris Murdoch and Alasdair MacIntyre.Michael Schwartz - 2009 - Journal of Business Ethics 90 (S3):315-327.
Lessons of Murdochian Attention.Christopher Cordner - 2016 - Sophia 55 (2):197-213.
Nauseating Flux: Iris Murdoch on Sartre and Heraclitus.David Robjant - 2014 - European Journal of Philosophy 22 (4):633-652.
Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness.Maria Antonaccio & William Schweiker (eds.) - 1996 - University of Chicago Press.
The Earthy Realism of Plato's Metaphysics, or: What Shall We Do with Iris Murdoch?David Robjant - 2011 - Philosophical Investigations 35 (1):43-67.
Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy.Sabina Lovibond - 2011 - New York: Routledge.
Moral Vision: Iris Murdoch and Alasdair Maclntyre. [REVIEW]Michael Schwartz - 2009 - Journal of Business Ethics 90 (S3):315 - 327.
The Sovereignty of Good. [REVIEW]J. B. R. - 1971 - Review of Metaphysics 25 (1):133-133.

Analytics

Added to PP
2021-05-19

Downloads
253 (#77,266)

6 months
66 (#66,032)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references