Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 03/04/2003
ISBN: 9780099433552
Length: 544 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm
Weight: 373g
RRP: £12.99
The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? Here, drawing on a novelists insight into art, literature and psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologians - from Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derrida - to provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial questions.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 03/04/2003
ISBN: 9780099433552
Length: 544 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm
Weight: 373g
RRP: £12.99
This is philosophy dragged from the cloister, dusted down and made freshly relevant
Gripping...it enchants with a clause that sets you day-dreaming, captivates with a stream of thought, empowers with reminiscences
It is a great congested work, a foaming sourcebook, about life, imagination, tragedy, philosophy, morality, religion and art
Remarkable... Iris Murdoch has once again put us all in her debt
Anyone who has even the slightest interest in philosophical matters will find Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals an utterly absorbing book