Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
Editorial VINTAGE BOOKS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher VINTAGE BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780099433552
- ISBN10 0099433559
- Type Book
- Pages 544
- Published 2003
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Subjects
EssaysMetaphysics as a Guide to Morals
Editorial VINTAGE BOOKS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? Here, drawing on a novelists insight into art, literature and psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologians - from Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derrida - to provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial questions.