Plato’s Friend
Ian Hacking, 17 December 1992
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
by Iris Murdoch.
Chatto, 520 pp., £20, October 1992,0 7011 3998 6 Show More
by Iris Murdoch.
Chatto, 520 pp., £20, October 1992,
“... of hers, about whom she once wrote a monograph, but who does not loom so large here: Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness. This resemblance made me curiously receptive to the quite improbable claim of her publishers that Murdoch can be read as an introduction to philosophy. What judicious teacher would place this farrago in the hands ... ”