Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals - Softcover

Murdoch, Iris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099433559 ISBN 13: 9780099433552

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2003

Synopsis

"Iris Murdoch has written a book which concerns all of us as human beings. There are pages here that one wants to embrace her for, pages that say things of fundamental human importance in a way that they have never quite been said before." --Sunday Telegraph
     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 novelists 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.

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About the Author

IRIS MURDOCH was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. She went to Badminton School, Bristol, and read classics at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1948 she returned to Oxford where she became a fellow of St Anne's college. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. She died in February 1999.

From the Back Cover

“There are pages here that one wants to embrace her for, pages that say things of fundamental human importance in a way that they have never quite been said before.” -- Sunday Telegraph

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099433559
• ISBN 13: 9780099433552
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528