![]() ![]() ![]() Armed with this material, I blundered in, without any reservations about my minimal philosophical training, comparing the novels to the philosophy, reading the philosophy through the novels, and extrapolating her beliefs about the ethics of fiction from her interviews, in a way which I later, after reading more and meeting more philosophers, began to think was unwise and probably presumptuous. So, in 1996, I read all Murdoch’s novels and all the philosophy I could get my hands on, and collected dozens of interviews (some of which I later compiled into a book). My aim was to look at how these authors’ decisions about formal and technical matters like plotting, point of view and voice are linked with solutions to the ethical questions they identified in their work. My PhD thesis, which I completed in 2000, was titled Courage and Truthfulness: Ethical Strategies and the Creative Process in the Novels of Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and V.S. ![]() ![]() “It is always a significant question to ask about any philosopher: what is he afraid of?” - Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992). ![]()
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