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Irish Philosophy

8 Feb. Irish born novelist and philosopher, , died 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." irishphilosophy.com/2013/05/25

She also wrote numerous philosophical essays.

DIB Bio: dib.ie/biography/murdoch-jean-

Black and white image, her hand is at the neck of her white shirt (visible under her smock), perhaps to fasten a button, perhaps defensively. Her calm, watchful face, framed by a bowl of light hair considers us thoughtfully.
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"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."

irishphilosophy.com/2014/06/02

From a (sadly deleted) article on secular ethics in .

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