THE MORAL VISION OF IRIS MURDOCH

(Hampshire, England):Ashgate Publishing Ltd. (2005).  vii+182pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good, clean copy inside and out, with a very good, lightly soiled dust jacket.  *"Iris Murdoch's moral philosophy, although higly influential in 20th century moral theory, is somewhat unsystematic and inaccessible.  In this work Widdows outlines the moral vision of Iris Murdoch in its entirety and draws out the implications of her thought for the contemporary ethical debate, discussing such aspects of Murdoch's work as the influence of Plato on her conception of The Good, the reality of the human moral experience, the attainment of knowledge of moral values and how art and religion inform the living of the moral life."...dj