CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Rondganger, Darren Steven |
|---|---|
| Title | Waiting for Good: Murdoch on Moral Freedom |
| Summary | Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy offers a unique and compelling way to make sense of our moral lives. For Murdoch, our moral life and our life as a whole are indistinguishable. On her account, moral freedom consists in the suppression of the ‘self’. However, this more compelling account of moral life is threatened by the worry that the individual disappears at the moment of freedom. It appears that the substantial individual, which Murdoch wants to give an account of, disappears if a key constitutive element of them disappears when they are free. Ana Barandalla proposes to solve this problem by reading Murdoch’s individual as the same sort of individual that emerges from Korsgaard’s reading of Kant’s moral philosophy. This solution, whilst seemingly promising, is unable to do justice to Murdoch’s wider philosophical commitments. I argue that we ought to conceive of Murdoch’s conception of moral freedom as consisting of two constitutive elements: (1) freedom from Freudian forces and (2) knowledge of the reality of other individuals. |
| Supervisor | Simon Rippon |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/rondganger_darren.pdf |
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