Perfection and Fiction : A study in Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy

Author: Frits Gåvertsson; Praktisk Filosofi; []

Keywords: HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Iris Murdoch; Perfectionism; Philosophy and Literature; Literary Turn; Moral Philosophy; Ethics;

Abstract: This thesis comprises a study of the ethical thought of Iris Murdoch with special emphasis, as evidenced by the title, on how morality is intimately connected to self-improvement aiming at perfection and how the study of (literary) fiction has an important role to play in our strive towards bettering ourselves within the framework set by Murdoch’s moral philosophy.

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