Iris Murdoch and the epistemic significance of love

Cathy Mason

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-72324-8_3

Iris Murdoch and the epistemic significance of love

Cathy Mason^*

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University of Oxford

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Murdoch makes some ambitious claims about love's epistemic significance which can initially seem puzzling in the light of its heterogeneous and messy everyday manifestations. I provide an interpretation of Murdochian love such that Murdoch's claims about its epistemic significance can be understood. I argue that Murdoch conceives of love as a virtue, and as belonging at the pinnacle of the hierarchy of the virtues, and that this makes sense of the epistemic role Murdochian love fulfills. Moreover, I suggest that there is good reason to think that Murdochian love is not as far from everyday conceptions of love as it can initially appear.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	New Philosophical Essays on Love and Loving
Editors	Simon Cushing
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	39-62
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030723248
ISBN (Print)	9783030723231
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72324-8_3
State	Published - 20 Sep 2021
Externally published	Yes

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