1st Edition
The Ethics of Attention Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil
By Silvia Caprioglio Panizza
Copyright 2022
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book draws on Iris Murdoch’s philosophy to explore questions related to the importance of attention in ethics. In doing so, it also engages with Murdoch’s ideas about the existence of a moral reality, the importance of love, and the necessity but also the difficulty, for most of us, of fighting against our natural self-centred tendencies.
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Introduction
1. What is ethical about attention?
2. Attention without self-concern
3. Attention without self
4. Self-knowledge
5. Moral perception
6. Motivation and action
Coda
Biography
Silvia Caprioglio Panizza is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice, and Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Ethics in Public Life, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, where she is a member of PEriTiA (Horizon 2020). She is co-editor of The Murdochian Mind (Routledge 2022) and has co-edited and co-translated Simone Weil’s Venice Saved (Bloomsbury 2019).
