Iris Murdoch and morality

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Published 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan in New York .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Murdoch, Iris -- Criticism and interpretation,
• Murdoch, Iris -- Ethics,
• Ethics in literature

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Statement	edited by Anne Rowe and Avril Horner.
Contributions	Rowe, Anne, 1952-, Horner, Avril, 1947-
Classifications
LC Classifications	PR6063.U7 Z713 2010
The Physical Object
Pagination	p. cm.
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL23919727M
ISBN 10	9780230224452
LC Control Number	2009046794

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Iris Murdoch-“Morality and Religion”: Notes pg. , para 1: Murdoch’s purpose is to question the relationship of morality to religion, and look at their differences as well as the definition of religion.-She claims this essay is moral philosophy and feels she must clarify whether her philosophy is religious or not. 35 books based on 62 votes: The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch, The Bell by Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch.

Morality without God: Iris Murdoch's secular theology --'The dream that does not cease to haunt us': Iris Murdoch's holiness / Anne Rowe --'A story about a man': the demythologised Christ in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Patrick White / Pamela Osborn --Do not seek God outside your own soul: Buddhism in The green knight / Tammy Grimshaw.   The values and consequences portrayed in this book are done with such a skillful hand, that The Sea, The Sea sits head and shoulders above Murdoch's other books, good as they like the theatrical world it explores, The Sea, The Sea, is a showy, dramatic and powerfully effective book. It is Iris Murdoch's masterpiece and a huge reward 5/5(5).   The Spiritual in Art and Beauty. In his article, “Murdoch, an unlikely liberal icon,” in The Guardian, Hywel Williams says: “Murdoch said she hated the ego in all its selfish, sentimental mess and its craving for - especially romantic art- fed the self. But, being human, Murdoch was inconsistent. Her divide between art and philosophy was always breaking down.”.

'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. Iris Murdoch and Morality provides innovate readings of Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates her work within current theoretical and philosophical debates and suggests it is a crucial link between twentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory. A noted philosopher and one of the most gifted and prolific novelists of the twentieth century, Iris Murdoch has anticipated and shaped many of the issues central to current ethics. These include the relation between human identity and ideas of the good, the effect of the modern critique of religion on moral thought, the relation between ethics.