Iris Murdoch on Pure Consciousness and Morality
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44421-1_12" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-44421-1_12</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Iris Murdoch on Pure Consciousness and Morality
Original language description
This chapter provides a reading of Murdoch’s discussion of “pure consciousness” in Chap. 7 of Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (MGM, Murdoch 1992), which is one of the central places in her work where we can find sustained attention to this matter. Here she builds a picture of moral consciousness on a critique of nineteenth and twentieth century thought on consciousness and cognition. Through this reading we can see how Murdoch uses a variety of very heterogeneous accounts of consciousness (and the purification of consciousness), to establish one of the pillars of her moral philosophy: the image of moral work as the work of a singular consciousness upon a world which is real and tangible, and yet veiled by the limitations of the self. Attention to this also helps us to place Murdoch in the context of currently growing interest in philosophy as a self-transformative practice.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
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)
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Methodological reflections on women’s contribution and influence in the history of philosophy
ISBN
978-3-030-44420-4
Number of pages of the result
12
Pages from-to
173-184
Number of pages of the book
193
Publisher name
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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