Project Details
Abstract
This research project explores the British philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch’s
(1919-1999) notion of moral perception and attention, i.e. “a just and loving gaze directed upon
an individual reality”. The purpose of this project in the first year is to offer an appropriate
formulation of Murdoch’ notion of attention and discuss its potential contribution to the accounts
of moral perception, moral psychology and virtue theory as well as of the moral improvement
and moral education. In order to evaluate the plausibility and applicability of this notion within
contemporary moral philosophy, this research in the second year will critically examine its
limitations and possible implications with respect to other philosophers.
Project IDs
Project ID:PE10107-0204
External Project ID:NSC101-2410-H182-020-MY2
External Project ID:NSC101-2410-H182-020-MY2
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 01/08/12 → 31/07/13 |
Keywords
- Iris Murdoch
- moral perception
- moral vision
- attention
- moral psychology
- virtue ethics
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