Lessons of Murdochian Attention.
The idea of attention was brought back into mainstream philosophical thinking about ethics by Iris Murdoch, drawing on Simone Weil. While Murdoch's use of the idea has been reflected on by a number of recent commentators, I think its deepest lessons have largely been missed. Beginning from a recurre...
| Publicado en: | Sophia Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 197 - 214 |
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