Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals

Name: Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Iris Murdoch
ISBN: 9780140172324

Iris Murdoch

01/03/1994
Penguin Publishing Group

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Couverture de Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals par Iris Murdoch

Résumé

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 theologiansfrom Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derridato provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial questions.