This book draws on Iris Murdoch’s philosophy to explore questions related to the importance of attention in ethics. In doing so, it also engages with Murdoch’s ideas about the existence of a moral reality, the importance of love, and the necessity but also the difficulty, for most of us, of fighting against our natural self-centred tendencies. Why is attention important to mora...(展开全部)

帕拉•尤格拉（Palle Yourgrau），美国布兰迪斯大学哲学教授，主要涉猎的领域有语 言哲学、数学哲学，以及柏拉图、亚里士多德、西蒙娜•薇依等哲学家的专题研究。除本书外，他还是哥德尔和爱因斯坦的传记作者，著有《没有时间的世界：哥德尔和爱因斯坦被遗忘的遗产》等。 译者余东，英语文学翻译博士，广东外语外贸大学翻译学院教授。中国翻译协会专家会 员，中国英汉语比较研究会会员。

帕拉•尤格拉（Palle Yourgrau），美国布兰迪斯大学哲学教授，主要涉猎的领域有语 言哲学、数学哲学，以及柏拉图、亚里士多德、西蒙娜•薇依等哲学家的专题研究。除本书外，他还是哥德尔和爱因斯坦的传记作者，著有《没有时间的世界：哥德尔和爱因斯坦被遗忘的遗产》等。 译者余东，英语文学翻译博士，广东外语外贸大学翻译学院教授。中国翻译协会专家会 员，中国英汉语比较研究会会员。

In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer’s Iliad—that “great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by being observed by others”— as the common origin and point of departure for our understandi...(展开全部)

In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer’s Iliad—that “great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by being observed by others”— as the common origin and point of departure for our understandi...(展开全部)

Roberto Esposito is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. His many books in English include Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy and Two: The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought (Fordham). Gareth Williams is Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan, where he is Chair of the De...(展开全部)

John Rist surveys the history of ethics from Plato to the present and offers a vigorous defence of an ethical theory based on a revised version of Platonic realism. In a wide-ranging discussion he examines well-known alternatives to Platonism, in particular Epicurus, Hobbes, Hume and Kant as well as contemporary 'practical reasoners', and argues that most post-Enlightenment the...(展开全部)

Iris Murdoch was a thinker of extraordinary breadth and ambition. Over the course of her lifetime she published nearly thirty novels, numerous plays and poems, three philosophical monographs, and two collections of philosophical essays. However, the breadth and novelty of her philosophical contributions remain yet to be fully acknowledged. Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy provid...(展开全部)