Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals [Philosophical Reflections]

Murdoch, Iris

ISBN 10: 0701139986 / ISBN 13: 9780701139988

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1992

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Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 520 pages; ink underlinings on approximately 40 pages, otherwise very gently used, clean and unmarked; DJ gently bumped, no chips or tears. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested]. Seller Inventory # 038056

Bibliographic Details

Title: Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals [...

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good ++

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

This book represents the summation of Murdoch's work as a philosopher. It surveys the development of Western philosophy, from Plato to Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein, and takes issue with new trends such as structuralism, arguing the case for a moral view in metaphysical argument. Iris Murdoch has written a number of short philosophical works including "The Fire and the Sun" and "Sartre: Romantic Rationalist".

Review:

"Iris Murdoch has written a book which concerns all of us as human beings ... There are pages here that one wants to embrace her for, pages that say things of fundamental human importance in a way that they have never quite been said before"
--Noel Malcolm in the Sunday Telegraph

"This is philosophy dragged from the cloister, dusted down and made freshly relevant to suffering and egoism, death and religious ecstasy ... and how we feel compasison for others"
--Terry Eagleton in the Guardian

"Gripping ... it enchants with a clause that sets you daydreaming, captivates with a stream of thought, empowers with reminiscences"
--Ian Hacking in the London Review of Books

"Anyone who has even the slightest interest in philosophical matters will find Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals an utterly absorbing book"
--The Wall Street Journal

"Remarkable ... Iris Murdoch has once again put us all in her debt."
--Alasdair MacIntyre in The New York Times Book Review