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Perception and Prejudice

Autoři: Forsberg Anders Niklas

Rok: 2018

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Perception and Prejudice	It might seem intuitive to say that attention is a matter of looking really closely at something, zeroing in on a particular object. In contrast to such an understanding of attention, I will argue that attentive understanding of particular persons, things or events can only be apprehended by means of attending to the world in which they belong. Iris Murdoch’s example of M and D is often described as a clear illustration of what “attention” is. I argue that the example is rather unhelpful, precisely because we get no description of the work of attention. So, there’s a big hole in the argument. The strategy of this paper is to fill that hole by means of a reading of C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed. Here we get a clear view of another person is attained by to attention to the world together with the unearthing of one’s own prejudices – a view shared by Murdoch, but missing in the reception of her thought.	Attention; Moral Perception; Grief; Iris Murdoch; C. S. Lewis