Ethical Attention and the Self in Iris Murdoch and Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00071773.2020.1836978?needAccess=true" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00071773.2020.1836978?needAccess=true</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2020.1836978" target="_blank" >10.1080/00071773.2020.1836978</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ethical Attention and the Self in Iris Murdoch and Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Original language description

As attention, in philosophy, is mainly discussed in the philosophy of mind, its ethical aspects have remained relatively unexplored. One notable exception is Iris Murdoch. Another philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, considers attention to be central for his phenomenology of perception, with important ethical implications. This paper explores the role of attention in ethics by drawing on both Murdoch and Merleau-Ponty and uses the resources they variously offer to address two questions relating to the enigmatic role of the self in attention: how should we understand agency in the attending subject? And: to what extent is the subject responsible for the quality of her attention? Addressing these difficulties about the self is the key to articulating its ethical value, as well as the main apparent difference between the ethical concept and the one in ordinary language and philosophy of mind.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

ISSN

0007-1773

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

53

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

24-39

UT code for WoS article

000587013600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85094898008