Iris Murdoch: Love as Just Attention

In Clancy Martin & H. Hay (eds.), Philosophy of Love and Sex (2023)
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This paper provides a brief overview of Iris Murdoch's central notion of love as just attention, introduces the reader to a few contemporary debates around her account, and shows that for Murdoch, love is not opposed to morality, but at its heart.

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