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This volume presents a series of essays by Sabina Lovibond on moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the later Wittgenstein, and Iris Murdoch. A common theme is the lived experience of the socially situated subject, and Lovibond considers the role of imaginative literature (especially the novel) in ethical formation.

This selection of the work of Sabina Lovibond, one of the most distinctive voices in philosophy since the 1980s, draws on realist or rationalist traditions in moral philosophy, and addresses fundamental ethical questions-including those on feminist ethics, such as the nature of value, the good life, moral requirements, and character-formation.

Iris Murdoch's leanings towards feminism can be detected in some of her most famous novels, but her philosophy suggests an ambivalence about sexual equality. This text explores the tangled and controversial issue of Murdoch's stance towards gender and feminism.

This selection of the work of Sabina Lovibond, one of the most distinctive voices in philosophy since the 1980s, draws on realist or rationalist traditions in moral philosophy, and addresses fundamental ethical questions¿including those on feminist ethics, such as the nature of value, the good life, moral requirements, and character-formation.

From the book To my mind the most striking development in ethical theory since the 1970s has been an attempt to reactivate the Platonic-Aristotelian ethical tradition and to provide an updated account of its leading idea--namely, that moral virtue is the outcome of a successful process of formation...The notion of form can be replaced by that of order, the kind of order that we try to impose on our own behavior insofar as we take ourselves to ...

Iris Murdoch was one of the best-known philosophers and novelists of the post-war period. Her leanings towards feminism can be detected in some of her most famous novels, but her philosophy suggests an ambivalence about sexual equality. In this book, Sabina Lovibond explores the tangled and controversial issue of Murdoch¿s stance towards gender and feminism. Lovibond analyses Murdoch's most famous novels and her key philosophical works, explor...

A well-rounded examination of ethical thought, language, and action In Realism and Imagination in Ethics, author Sabina Lovibond explores the non-cognitive theory of ethics along with its objections and the alternative of moral realism.

This collection of essays was presented to David Wiggins to mark his 60th birthday and his accession to the Wykeham Chair of Logic at Oxford. The contributors, who include both long-established and younger writers, take up some of the many important philosophical debates on which Wiggins has made an impact. Their chosen topics range from ancient philosophy to contemporary questions in ethics, metaphysics and the theory of meaning. An attractiv...