Virtue Ethics

Iris Murdoch: Moral Vision, Human Complexity, and the Work of Attention

Iris Murdoch: Moral Vision, Human Complexity, and the Work of Attention

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Iris Murdoch was a novelist and philosopher who explored morality through the inner life, emphasising attention, imagination and the struggle against ego. Her work unites fiction and ethics, revealing how we become good not through sudden decisions but through how we see others and the world.

Elizabeth Anscombe: Intention, Virtue, and the Revival of Moral Philosophy

Elizabeth Anscombe: Intention, Virtue, and the Revival of Moral Philosophy

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Elizabeth Anscombe, one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth century, transformed modern ethics and action theory through her work on intention, virtue, and moral reasoning. Drawing on Aristotle and Aquinas while engaging the legacy of Wittgenstein, she challenged the foundations of modern moral philosophy and helped revive virtue ethics as a central philosophical approach.