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IRIS MURDOCH AND THE NATURE OF GOOD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

ELIZABETH BURNS
ELIZABETH BURNS
Affiliation:
Department of Religious Studies, University College Suffolk, Bolton Lane Annexe, Ipswich, IP4 2BT
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Abstract

Iris Murdoch's concept of Good is a central feature of her moral theory; in Murdoch's thought, attention to the Good is the primary means of improving our moral conduct. Unfortunately, her unsystematic presentation of her ideas and the difficulty of the issues being considered make it hard to be sure what she means by the Good, and how we are to attend to it. I will argue that this uncertainty has given rise to three objections which, with some clarification and development of Murdoch's view, are by no means fatal to her position.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 303 - 313
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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