The Urge to Write: Of Murdoch on Plato’s Demiurge

In Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley, Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Springer Verlag. pp. 227-242 (2019)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The Timaeus is difficult, and Murdoch has two strands of thought about it. On the one hand she thinks it a defence of Forms, and on the other hand she thinks it is an allegory on the inspiration and limitations of the artist, or creative literary writer. Arguing that the two strands get in each other’s way, and that one is mistaken, I will defend and expand on ‘Plato’s portrait of the artist’.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-18967-9_15

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 103,748

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Vision and Encounter in Moral Thinking.Christopher Cordner - 2019 - In Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley, Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Springer Verlag. pp. 209-225.
On Art, Morals and Religion: Some Reflections on the Work of Iris Murdoch.Scott Dunbar - 1978 - Religious Studies 14 (4):515 - 524.
‘I Think I Disagree’: Murdoch on Wittgenstein and Inner Life.Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen - 2019 - In Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley, Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Springer Verlag. pp. 145-161.
Fields of Force: Murdoch on Axioms, Duties, and Eros.Mark Hopwood - 2019 - In Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley, Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Springer Verlag. pp. 243-260.
The Earthy Realism of Plato's Metaphysics, or: What Shall We Do with Iris Murdoch?David Robjant - 2011 - Philosophical Investigations 35 (1):43-67.
Disciplines of Attention: Iris Murdoch on Consciousness, Criticism, and Thought.David J. Fine - 2019 - In Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley, Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Springer Verlag. pp. 107-123.
Schopenhauer and the Mystical Solution of the Riddle.Mariëtte Willemsen - 2019 - In Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley, Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Springer Verlag. pp. 79-91.
The Metaphysics of Morals and Politics.Gary Browning - 2019 - In Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley, Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Springer Verlag. pp. 179-194.
The Gifford-Driven Genesis and Subliminal Stylistic Construction of Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals.Frances White - 2019 - In Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley, Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Springer Verlag. pp. 17-31.
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals: The Debate Between Literature and Philosophy.Gillian Dooley - 2019 - In Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley, Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Springer Verlag. pp. 93-106.

Analytics

Added to PP
2023-03-12

Downloads
20 (#1,115,846)

6 months
3 (#1,148,921)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references