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Title: Kathryn McKay
Lacking the Will to be Good – Iris Murdoch and Aristotle on Virtue
Iris Murdoch was a self-described Platonist, but in this paper I will draw
on similarities between her theory of virtue and Aristotle’s, to bring
Murdoch’s work into conversation with contemporary (neo-Aristotelian)
virtue ethics and, if all goes to plan, the (meta)ethics of care. By
focussing on three aspects of Murdoch’s philosophy, I hope to elucidate the
ways in which her work can be positioned as a link between these two moral
theories. I begin with a discussion of the role the will plays – or doesn’t
play – in being good from Murdoch’s and Aristotle’s perspectives. I then
discuss the importance of love and the central role of attention in moral
life. Both Murdoch’s Platonism and her focus on the mystical can be a
source of scholarly discomfort (cf Broakes 2012: Murdoch’s mysticism must
be “grounded, deflated, and rendered innocent” p. 30). Rather than
‘deflate’ or denude these aspects of her thought, I will try to incorporate
or develop them. Murdoch’s focus on beauty in nature (and art), experiences
of the sublime, and the ego-rending experience of love are all central to
her view of being good. According to Murdoch, and as we find in Aristotle,
being good is not established by a discrete decision made at a particular
time, but in a habitual way of perceiving the real world and acting upon
those perceptions. Being good is not a matter of will, but of vision.
When: Thu 12 Mar 2020 15:00 – 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney
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