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8 Feb. Irish born novelist and philosopher, #IrisMurdoch, died #OTD 1999. She’s best known for her novels about sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.
"What her novels systematically embody is a theory about theories, a theory which is to some degree against all theory – including itself." https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/05/25/theory-about-theories/
She also wrote numerous philosophical essays.
DIB Bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/murdoch-jean-iris-a6063
"For Murdoch, the most crucial moral virtue was a kind of attentiveness to detail, a wise, trained capacity for vision, which could see what was really going on in a situation and respond accordingly. The sort of psychological insight and attentiveness to detail necessary for writing fiction was also, for Murdoch, what enables a person to live a morally good life."
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/06/02/murdoch-narrative/
From a (sadly deleted) article on secular ethics in #Aeon.
Iris Murdoch: the virtue of paying attention
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/07/15/murdoch-attention/