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London: Penguin Books, 1993. 7th Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 7x5x1. Seventh printing. Spine and front corner creased, ink underlining throughout. 1993 Trade Paperback. 520 pp. "The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? Here, drawing on a novelist's insight into art, literature and abnormal psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologiansâfrom Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derridaâto provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial questions.
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Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals Paperback - 1994
by Iris Murdoch
The acclaimed author of The Good Apprentice draws on the entire history of philosophy--and particularly on Plato and Kant--to formulate her own model of morality and demonstrate how thoroughly it is bound up with our daily lives. "An utterly absorbing book".--The Wall Street Journal.
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The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? Here, drawing on a novelist's insight into art, literature and abnormal psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologiansfrom Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derridato provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial questions.
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- Title Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
- Author Iris Murdoch
- Binding Paperback
- Edition reprint
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, London
- Date 1994-03-01
- ISBN 9780140172324 / 0140172327
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 7.88 x 5.04 x 1.23 in (20.02 x 12.80 x 3.12 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Religion, Philosophy
- Dewey Decimal Code 100
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"Iris Murdoch has written a book which concerns all of us as human beings
There are pages here that one wants to embrace her for, pages that say things of fundamental human importance in a way that they have never quite been said before"
Noel Malcolm in the Sunday Telegraph
"This is philosophy dragged from the cloister, dusted down and made freshly relevant to suffering and egoism, death and religious ecstasy and how we feel compasison for others"
Terry Eagleton in the Guardian
"Gripping it enchants with a clause that sets you daydreaming, captivates with a stream of thought, empowers with reminiscences"
Ian Hacking in the London Review of Books
"Anyone who has even the slightest interest in philosophical matters will find Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals an utterly absorbing book"
The Wall Street Journal
"Remarkable Iris Murdoch has once again put us all in her debt."
Alasdair MacIntyre in The New York Times Book Review
Noel Malcolm in the Sunday Telegraph
"This is philosophy dragged from the cloister, dusted down and made freshly relevant to suffering and egoism, death and religious ecstasy and how we feel compasison for others"
Terry Eagleton in the Guardian
"Gripping it enchants with a clause that sets you daydreaming, captivates with a stream of thought, empowers with reminiscences"
Ian Hacking in the London Review of Books
"Anyone who has even the slightest interest in philosophical matters will find Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals an utterly absorbing book"
The Wall Street Journal
"Remarkable Iris Murdoch has once again put us all in her debt."
Alasdair MacIntyre in The New York Times Book Review
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- Publishers Weekly, 02/21/1994, Page 0
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