This book addresses how Plato, Kant, and Iris Murdoch (each in different ways) view the connection aesthetic experience has to morality. Meredith Trexler Drees considers not only Iris Murdoch’s concept of unselfing, but also its relationship with Kant’s view of Achtung and Plato’s view of Eros.
Meredith Trexler Drees is the Chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy and the Director of Experiential Learning at Kansas Wesleyan University, USA.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Experiences Of Beauty Via Art And Erotic Experiences Of Beautiful People: The Connection Between Aesthetics And Ethics In Plato.- Chapter 3: Beauty, Art, And Sublimity, And The Symbolic Relationship Between Aesthetic Judgment And Moral Judgment In Kant.- Chapter 4: Aesthetic Experience, Moral Vision, And ‘Unselfing’ In Iris Murdoch.- Chapter 5: A Closer Look At The Connection Between Plato, Kant And Murdoch.- Chapter 6: Motivational Internalism About The Good And The Two-Tier Selfless Perspective.- Chapter 7: Morally Troubling Art.- Chapter 8: Moving Beyond Murdoch: Kantian Religion As Moral Empowerment.