Murdoch and Plato

Catherine Rowett

Murdoch and Plato

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Abstract

I consider, and provide a critique of, Iris Murdoch’s lifelong engagement with Plato, and her idiosyncratic use of ideas and themes that she found in Plato’s works. The chapter is arranged thematically, and focuses on some of her favourite and often-quoted passages, investigating what she saw and what she missed in picking these themes out and using them repeatedly over many years and in several contexts. The themes covered include beauty, poetry and love, Plato’s supposed mistrust of art, the theory of Forms, Socrates’ disapproval of writing in the Phaedrus, and material about language and falsity in some later dialogues by Plato.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Murdochian Mind
Editors	Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, Mark Hopwood
Place of Publication	Abingdon
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	17
Pages	239-252
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-003-03122-2
ISBN (Print)	978-0-367-46801-9, 978-1-032-27298-6
Publication status	Published - 3 Jun 2022

Publication series

Name	Routledge Philosophical Minds

Keywords

Iris Murdoch
Plato

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