Aesthetic Experience and Moral Vision in Plato, Kant, and Murdoch: Looking Good/Being Good

by Meredith Trexler Drees

This book addresses how Plato, Kant, and Iris Murdoch (each in different ways) view the connection aesthetic experience has to morality. While offering an examination of Iris Murdoch's philosophy, it analyses deeply the suggestive links (as well as essential distinctions) between Plato's and Kant's philosophies. Meredith Trexler Drees considers not only Iris Murdoch's concept of unselfing, but also its relationship with Kant's view of Achtung and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030790878
• ISBN13: 9783030790875
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"