The Ethic of Love by Iris Murdoch [Spanish]

Authors

  • Daniela Alegría Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Keywords:

Philosophy, ethics

Abstract

The Irish philosopher Iris Murdoch proposes a moral theory based on love. This “ethics of love” is constituted by loving attention and imagination. According to Murdoch, moral theories such as the Kantian one (and utilitarian ethics, by extension) present important problems as they consider morality a matter of “moral algorithms”. Dominant ethics from modernity until today have focused on universality, impartiality, moral principles, and so on. Murdoch points out that morality has to do, rather, with our ability to respond to other particular individuals, a particularity that is not reducible to any form of universality or complex impartiality.

 

Author Biography

Daniela Alegría, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Doctoranda en Filosofía en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y en la Universidad complutense de Madrid. Becaria CONICYT. Magíster en Filosofía por la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y Licenciada en Filosofía por la Universidad de Chile. Ha sido Instructor Adjunto en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2013-2015), así como Visiting Assistant in Research en Yale University (2016). Su principal línea de investigación es ética.

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2019-05-28

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No. 31 (2019): July-December

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