- Good and evil, Ethics, Addresses, essays, lectures, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring the notion of ‘vision’ to moral thinking can this distortion be corrected.
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- Author
- Iris Murdoch
- First published
- October 1, 1994
- Pages
- 106
- Publisher
- Routledge, Cambridge U.P., Taurus
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- hrv, English, Spanish, Italian
- ISBN
- 9782905372970
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“It is sometimes said, either irritably or with a certain satisfaction, that philosophy makes no progress.”
Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, *Under the Net* (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel *The Sea, The Sea* won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, *The Times* ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch))
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