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On art, morals and religion: Some reflections on the work of Iris Murdoch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Scott Dunbar
Scott Dunbar
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy and Religion, Dawson College, Montreal
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Extract

Among contemporary novelists Iris Murdoch is unique. On the one hand she is a novelist and a philosopher and yet does not write philosophical novels, and, on the other hand, her work as a moral philosopher is uninfluenced by current moral philosophy.

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Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 1978 , pp. 515 - 524
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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page 515 note 1 In The Sovereignty of Good.Google Scholar

page 516 note 1 Ibid. pp. 50–1.

page 516 note 2 Notebooks, vol. I, p. 149.

page 517 note 1 Op. cit. p. 51.

page 518 note 1 This attitude towards the homosexual dominated the view of psychiatric medicine until a very few years ago (1973) when homosexuality was no longer regarded as a disease by the American Psychiatric Association.

page 518 note 2 The Fire and the Sun, p. 2.

page 518 note 3 The Sovereignty of Good, p. 52.

page 519 note 1 See Existentialism and Humanism (Methuen, London, 1968)Google Scholar

page 520 note 1 Cf. in this context Nigel's Letter to Danby in Bruno's Dream, by Murdoch, Iris, pp. 250–1.Google Scholar

page 521 note 1 Murdoch, Iris, The Bell, pp. 191–2.Google Scholar

page 521 note 2 Ibid. pp. 197–8.

page 522 note 1 Quoted by Iris Murdoch in The Sovereignty of Good, p. 59.

page 523 note 1 ‘Human Personality’ in Selected Essays, ed. by Rees, Richard, p. 29.Google Scholar

page 524 note 1 The Fire and the Sun, p. 45.

page 524 note 2 From In No Strange Land, by Francis Thompson.