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Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern... read more
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- George Eliot
- G. E. Moore
- Hume
- Gabriel Marcel
- Acastos
- Marx
- Francoise
- Dr Canetti
- Wittgenstein
- Mr Hare
- Mantias
- Simone Weil
- Gilbert Ryle
- Tolstoy
- Alcibiades
- Freud
- Locke
- Mr Knight
- T. S. Eliot
- Bertrand Russell
- Jane Austen
- Antagoras
- Good
- Phaedo
- Hulme
- Brunet
- D. H. Lawrence
- Mallarme
- Socrates
- Deximenes
- John Stuart Mill
- Burke
- Mathieu
- Theaetetus
- Schneider
- Timonax
- Schopenhauer
- Stevenson
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Some great philosophers have been also great writers in the sense of great literary artists - I suppose the outstanding examples are Plato, St Augustine, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
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- Iris Murdoch (Author)
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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1997
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