Iris Murdoch on Moral Perception and Attention

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 ID:PE10107-0204
External Project ID:NSC101-2410-H182-020-MY2