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M and D and Me Iris Murdoch and Stanley Cavell on Perfectionism and Self-Transformation
Year: 2017
Type of publication: článek v odborném periodiku
Name of source: Iride
Publisher name: SOC. ED. IL MULINO
Place: Bologna
Page from-to: 361-372
Titles:
Language Name Abstract Keywords
cze M and D and Me Iris Murdoch and Stanley Cavell on Perfectionism and Self-Transformation This paper is an investigation into Iris Murdoch's variety of moral perfectionism. It starts off from Stanley Cavell's reservations against Murdoch's view, grounded in a discussion of Murdoch's famous example M and D. Cavell's principle complaint is that, as the example is set up, there's no reason to think that the mother in law, M, comes << to see herself, and hence the possibilities of her world, in a transformed light >>. This, Cavell argued, differentiates Murdoch version of moral perfectionism from the form Cavell favors. In this paper, it is argued that Cavell has pointed out a genuine deficiency of Murdoch's example, but that he nevertheless misunderstands her position; more specifically of her views of conceptual change, attention, love and perception. Moral Perfectionism; Iris Murdoch; Stanley Cavell; Self-Transformation; Attention
eng M and D and Me Iris Murdoch and Stanley Cavell on Perfectionism and Self-Transformation This paper is an investigation into Iris Murdoch's variety of moral perfectionism. It starts off from Stanley Cavell's reservations against Murdoch's view, grounded in a discussion of Murdoch's famous example M and D. Cavell's principle complaint is that, as the example is set up, there's no reason to think that the mother in law, M, comes << to see herself, and hence the possibilities of her world, in a transformed light >>. This, Cavell argued, differentiates Murdoch version of moral perfectionism from the form Cavell favors. In this paper, it is argued that Cavell has pointed out a genuine deficiency of Murdoch's example, but that he nevertheless misunderstands her position; more specifically of her views of conceptual change, attention, love and perception. Moral Perfectionism; Iris Murdoch; Stanley Cavell; Self-Transformation; Attention

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