Murdoch and Gilead: John Ames as a Model of Murdochian Virtue

Cathy  Mason

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-58433-6_3

Murdoch and Gilead: John Ames as a Model of Murdochian Virtue

Cathy Mason

Department of Philosophy

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What’s so good about John Ames? The narrator of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead has been much admired, but it’s far from obvious why. His life is quiet and unassuming, and has for the most part been uneventful in the extreme. In this paper I draw on Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy to explain the moral arc of the novel, and suggest that the novel in turn can shed light on Murdoch’s key ethical ideas.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Narrative and Ethical Understanding
Editors	Garry Hagberg
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	27-44
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031584336
ISBN (Print)	9783031584329
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58433-6_3
State	Published - 2024

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Iris Murdoch
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
virtue
attention

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