Perception and Prejudice: Attention and Moral Progress in Iris Murdoch's Philosophy and C. S. Lewis's A Grief Observed

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/756884" target="_blank" >https://muse.jhu.edu/article/756884</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pan.2020.0023" target="_blank" >10.1353/pan.2020.0023</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Perception and Prejudice: Attention and Moral Progress in Iris Murdoch's Philosophy and C. S. Lewis's A Grief Observed
Original language description
It might seem intuitive to say that attention is a matter of looking really closely at something, zeroing in on a particular object. In contrast to such an understanding of attention, it is here argued that attentive understanding of particular persons, things or events can only be apprehended by means of attending to the world in which they belong. Iris Murdoch's example of M and D is often described as a clear illustration of what "attention" is. I argue that the example is rather unhelpful, precisely because we get no description of the work of attention. There is, therefore, a hole in the argument. The strategy of this paper is to fill that hole by means of a reading of C. S. Lewis's A Grief Observed. Here a clear view of another person is attained by attention to the world together with unearthing one's own prejudices—a view shared by Murdoch but missing in the reception of her thought.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical
Partial answers-Journal of literature and the history of ideas
ISSN
1565-3668
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
18
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
IL - THE STATE OF ISRAEL
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
259-279
UT code for WoS article
000539491100004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85091530642

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