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Retrieving Your Concepts: Iris Murdoch on Original Sin

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In The Sovereignty of Good, Iris Murdoch argues that our moral thinking will be impoverished until it possesses a secular conception of original sin. Such a notion would need to remove unacceptable Christian baggage while retaining a genuine claim to be a descendant of the original Christian concept.
Samuel Filby
wiley   +1 more source

Trapped in the Cave: Toward a Platonic Theory of Ideology

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is about showing that Plato has a theory of ideology in the broadly Marxist sense of distorted self‐consciousness of social life. Focusing on the Allegory of the Cave and related passages in the Republic, the paper argues that in the Cave, Plato illustrates the social mediation of human psychology, which contributes to the soul's ...
John D. Proios
wiley   +1 more source

Somerset Maugham's Failings

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Allan Hepburn
wiley   +1 more source

Was there ever an Animal Dasein? Heidegger's Concept of Life in the 1924 Aristotle Lecture

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay examines Heidegger's interpretation of the Aristotelian concept of life in his 1924 lecture Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy. While scholars have emphasized the text's decisive role in the preparation of Being and Time, their readings have largely centered on the notions of praxis and human existence.
Antonino Firenze
wiley   +1 more source

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