Perception, Self, and Zen: On Iris Murdoch and the Taming of Simone Weil
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
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Výsledek na webu
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/8/4/64" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/8/4/64</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8040064" target="_blank" >10.3390/philosophies8040064</a>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Perception, Self, and Zen: On Iris Murdoch and the Taming of Simone Weil
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
How do we see the world aright? This question is central to Iris Murdoch's philosophy as well as to that of her great source of inspiration, Simone Weil. For both of them, not only our action, but the very quality of our being depends on the ability to see things as they are, where vision is both a metaphor for immediate understanding and a literal expression of the requirement to train our perception so as to get rid of illusions. For both, too, the method to achieve this goal is attention. For both, finally, attention requires a dethronement of the self, considered as the source of illusion. In this paper I investigate what moral perception means for each of these philosophers and how it operates through attention and its relationship with the self. I will show that, despite many striking similarities, Murdoch's project does not equal 'Weil minus God', but offers a different concept of the self, a different understanding of its removal, and therefore a different picture of attention and moral perception. In evaluating both views, I will gesture towards a third way represented by Zen Buddhism, which both philosophers variously consider but do not embrace.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Perception, Self, and Zen: On Iris Murdoch and the Taming of Simone Weil
Popis výsledku anglicky
How do we see the world aright? This question is central to Iris Murdoch's philosophy as well as to that of her great source of inspiration, Simone Weil. For both of them, not only our action, but the very quality of our being depends on the ability to see things as they are, where vision is both a metaphor for immediate understanding and a literal expression of the requirement to train our perception so as to get rid of illusions. For both, too, the method to achieve this goal is attention. For both, finally, attention requires a dethronement of the self, considered as the source of illusion. In this paper I investigate what moral perception means for each of these philosophers and how it operates through attention and its relationship with the self. I will show that, despite many striking similarities, Murdoch's project does not equal 'Weil minus God', but offers a different concept of the self, a different understanding of its removal, and therefore a different picture of attention and moral perception. In evaluating both views, I will gesture towards a third way represented by Zen Buddhism, which both philosophers variously consider but do not embrace.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2023
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Philosophies
ISSN
2409-9287
e-ISSN
2409-9287
Svazek periodika
8
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
4
Stát vydavatele periodika
CH - Švýcarská konfederace
Počet stran výsledku
13
Strana od-do
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Kód UT WoS článku
001057605900001
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
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