Iris Murdoch’s Practical Metaphysics

Lesley Jamieson is a researcher at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

• 1. Introduction: Is Clarity Enough? Audience Aims and Methods.- 2. Analyzing Murdoch’s Methods.- 3. Murdoch and the Behaviourists.- 4. Sublime Literature, Love, and Freedom.- 5. Murdoch and the Limits of Modern Moral Philosophy.- 6. Moral Philosophy, Moralism, and the Socialist Imagination.- 7. From the Sublime to the Beautiful.