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THE MURDOCHIAN MIND Iris Murdoch was a philosopher and novelist of extraordinary breadth and originality whose work defies simple categorisation. Her philosophical writing engages with an astonishingly wide range of figures, from Plato and Kant to Sartre and Heidegger, and her work increasingly inspires debate in ethics, aesthetics, religion, and literature. The Murdochian Mind is an outstanding reference source to the full span of Murdoch’s philosophical work, comprising 37 specially commissioned chapters written by an international team of leading scholars. Divided into five clear parts, the volume covers the following areas: • A guide to Murdoch’s key philosophical texts, including The Sovereignty of Good and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. • Core themes and concepts in Murdoch’s philosophy, such as love, moral vision, and attention. • Murdoch’s engagement with the history of philosophy, including Plato, Kant, Hegel, Simone Weil, and Wittgenstein. • Interdisciplinary connections with art, literature, and religion, including Judaism, Buddhism, and Christianity. • Murdoch and contemporary philosophical debates, including feminism, virtue ethics, and metaethics. • The application of Murdoch’s thought to applied ethics, including animal ethics, psychiatric ethics, and the environment. Although recent years have seen a blossoming of interest in Murdoch’s philosophy, The Murdochian Mind is the first volume to do justice to the incredibly rich and wide-ranging nature of her work. As such it will be of great interest to students of philosophy, especially ethics and aesthetics, as well as those in related disciplines such as literature, religion, and gender studies. Silvia Caprioglio Panizza is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice, and a fellow of the PEriTiA project (Policy, Expertise, and Trust in Action) at the Cen- tre for Ethics in Public Life, University College Dublin. She has edited and translated Simone Weil’s Venice Saved with Philip Wilson (2019) and is the author of The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil (2022). Mark Hopwood is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of the South, Sewanee, USA. He has published articles on a range of topics in moral philosophy, including love, narcissism, hypocrisy, and the nature of moral judgement, and is currently writing a book on Iris Murdoch’s ethics. ROUTLEDGE PHILOSOPHICAL MINDS In philosophy past and present there are some philosophers who tower over the intellectual landscape and have shaped it in indelible ways. So significant is their impact that it is difficult to capture it in one place. The Routledge Philosophical Minds series presents a comprehen- sive survey of all aspects of a major philosopher’s work, from analysis and criticism of their major texts and arguments to the way their ideas are taken up in contemporary philosophy and beyond. Edited by leading figures in their fields and with an outstanding international roster of contributors the series offers a magisterial and unrivalled picture of a great philo- sophical mind. THE GADAMERIAN MIND Edited by Theodore George and Gert-Jan van der Heiden THE LOCKEAN MIND Edited by Jessica Gordon-Roth and Shelley Weinberg THE ANSCOMBEAN MIND Edited by Adrian Haddock and Rachael Wiseman THE BERGSONIAN MIND Edited by Mark Sinclair and Yaron Wolf THE JAMESIAN MIND Edited by Sarin Marchetti THE MURDOCHIAN MIND Edited by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Mark Hopwood For more information on this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge- Philosophical-Minds/book-series/RPM THE MURDOCHIAN MIND Edited by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Mark Hopwood Cover image: © Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo First published 2022 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2022 selection and editorial matter Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Mark Hopwood; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Mark Hopwood to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Caprioglio Panizza, Silvia, editor. | Hopwood, Mark, editor. Title: The Murdochian mind / edited by Silvia Caprioglio and Panizza, Mark Hopwood. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. | Series: Routledge philosophical minds | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2021058523 (print) | LCCN 2021058524 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367468019 (hbk) | ISBN 9781032272986 (pbk) | ISBN 9781003031222 (ebk) Subjects: LCSH: Murdoch, Iris. Classification: LCC B1647.M8484 M87 2022 (print) | LCC B1647.M8484 (ebook) | DDC 192—dc23/eng/20220318 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021058523 LC ebook record available at https://lccnloc.gov/2021058524 ISBN: 978-0-367-46801-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-27298-6 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-03122-2 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003031222 Typeset in Bembo by codeMantra CONTENTS List of abbreviations ix Notes on contributors xi Introduction 1 Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Mark Hopwood PART 1 Reading Murdoch 25 1 The importance of Murdoch’s early encounters with Marcel and Anscombe 27 Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman 2 How to read The Sovereignty of Good 40 Justin Broackes 3 How to read The Fire and the Sun 55 David Robjant 4 How to read Acastos: Murdoch’s Platonic dialogues 68 Hannah Marije Altorf 5 How to read Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals 80 Mark Hopwood v Contents 6 How Iris Murdoch can change your life 94 Frances White 7 Murdoch and me: A personal reflection 108 Stanley Hauerwas PART 2 Core themes and concepts 113 8 Thinking, language, and concepts 115 Niklas Forsberg 9 Inwardness in ethics 128 Sophie Grace Chappell 10 Moral vision 142 Anil Gomes 11 Attention 156 Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 12 Love 169 Christopher Cordner 13 Virtue 183 Maria Silvia Vaccarezza 14 The good 197 Craig Taylor 15 The ontological argument 209 Nora Hämäläinen 16 Care for the ordinary 223 Sandra Laugier PART 3 Critical encounters 237 17 Murdoch and Plato 239 Catherine Rowett 18 Murdoch and Kant 253 Melissa Merritt vi Contents 19 Murdoch and Hegel 266 Gary Browning 20 Murdoch and Heidegger 280 Michelle Mahoney 21 Murdoch and Sartre 292 Alison Scott-Baumann 22 Murdoch and Weil 306 Eva-Maria Düringer 23 Murdoch and Wittgenstein 318 Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen 24 Murdoch and K. E. Løgstrup 331 Robert Stern PART 4 Art, religion, and politics 345 25 Art, beauty, and morality 347 Chiara Brozzo and Andy Hamilton 26 Is Murdoch a philosophical novelist? 363 Miles Leeson 27 Writing morally 376 Rowan Williams 28 Murdoch and Christianity 382 Elizabeth Burns 29 Murdoch and Buddhism 395 Christopher W. Gowans 30 Murdoch and Jewish thought 409 Victor Jeleniewski Seidler 31 Murdoch and politics 424 Lawrence Blum 32 Murdoch and feminism 438 Lucy Bolton vii Contents PART 5 Contemporary moral issues 451 33 Nature and the environment 453 Lucy Oulton 34 Loving attention to animals 468 Tony Milligan 35 Psychiatric ethics 479 Anna Bergqvist 36 Moral injury 493 Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon 37 Civility 505 Megan Jane Laverty Index 519 viii ABBREVIATIONS The following abbreviations for works by Iris Murdoch are used throughout the volume. Except where noted otherwise, page numbers for Murdoch’s essays correspond to the ver- sions reprinted in Existentialists and Mystics (1999), edited by Peter J. Conradi. AD ‘Against Dryness’ AE ‘Art and Eros: A Dialogue about Art’ AG ‘Above the Gods: A Dialogue about Religion’ AIN ‘Art is the Imitation of Nature’ BEA ‘De Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity’ DPR ‘The Darkness of Practical Reason’ E&I ‘Ethics and the Imagination’ E&M ‘Existentialists and Mystics’ EB ‘Existentialist Bite’ EH ‘The Existentialist Hero’ EPM ‘The Existentialist Political Myth’ F&S ‘The Fire and the Sun’ HMD ‘Hegel in Modern Dress’ HT ‘A House of Theory’ IM ‘The Image of Mind’ IP ‘The Idea of Perfection’ KV ‘Knowing the Void’ LP ‘Literature and Philosophy: A Conversation with Bryan Magee’ MDH ‘The Moral Decision about Homosexuality’ M&E ‘Metaphysics and Ethics’ MGM Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals MMM ‘Mass, Might, and Myth’ NM ‘The Novelist as Metaphysician’ NP ‘Nostalgia for the Particular’ OGG ‘On “God” and “Good”’ S&G ‘The Sublime and the Good’ SBR ‘The Sublime and the Beautiful Revisited’ ix
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