Perfection and Fiction : A study in Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy
(2018)- Abstract
- This thesis comprises a study of the ethical thought of Iris Murdoch with special emphasis, as evidenced by the title, on how morality is intimately connected to self-improvement aiming at perfection and how the study of (literary) fiction has an important role to play in our strive towards bettering ourselves within the framework set by Murdoch’s moral philosophy.
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- author
- Gåvertsson, Frits LU
- supervisor
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- Dan Egonsson LU
- Johan Brännmark LU
- opponent
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- professor Schellekens Dammann, Elisabeth, Uppsala universitet
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-09-17
- type
- Thesis
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Iris Murdoch, Perfectionism, Philosophy and Literature, Literary Turn, Moral Philosophy, Ethics
- edition
- 1st
- pages
- 309 pages
- publisher
- Lund University (Media-Tryck)
- defense location
- C121, LUX, Helgonavägen 3, Lund
- defense date
- 2018-09-24 10:15:00
- ISBN
- 978-91-88473-94-3
- 978-91-88473-93-6
- project
- Perfection and Fiction: A study in Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 1fb52f14-e66b-45da-ac67-9e0e4d7c6bcf
- date added to LUP
- 2018-08-08 11:26:49
- date last changed
- 2022-12-21 02:15:53
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