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Loving by Instinct: Environmental Ethics in Iris Murdochâs The Sovereignty of Good and Nuns and Soldiers
Un aspect de lâĂ©thique dâIris Murdoch, liĂ© Ă lâimaginaire environnemental, semble Ă ce jour en grande partie mĂ©connu. LâinquiĂ©tude que suscitent la crise climatique et son impact sur notre monde naturel donne lieu Ă un dĂ©bat Ă©thique qui suggĂšre des Ă©chelles spatiales et temporelles tout Ă fait diffĂ©rentes de nos prĂ©occupations anthropocentriques quotidiennes ordinaires. Cet article Ă©tudie lâĂ©thique Ă©cologique de Murdoch, exprimĂ©e Ă la fois dans sa philosophie et sa fiction, et sa contribution aux discussions Ă©cologiques contemporaines. Jâexamine le concept murdochien dâattention portĂ©e au bien dans La souverainetĂ© du bien et Les soldats et les nonnes et suggĂšre que, lorsquâelle exprime la primautĂ© dâun amour instinctif de notre monde naturel, elle nous encourage Ă prĂȘter attention Ă lâimportance singuliĂšre du non-humain et de la matĂ©rialitĂ© de la terre et Ă repenser notre relation avec eux.An aspect of Iris Murdochâs ethics, situated in her environmental imagination, appears to date to have been largely overlooked. Concern about the climate crisis and its impact on our natural world posits an ethical debate that offers quite different spatial and temporal scales to our more commonplace anthropocentric concerns. Finding expression in both her philosophy and her novelistic art, this essay investigates what Murdochâs ecological ethics might contribute to contemporary ecological discussions. I examine Murdochâs notion of attending to the Good through a reading of The Sovereignty of Good and Nuns and Soldiers and suggest that, when she expresses the primacy of an instinctual love of our natural world, she is encouraging us to attend to the singular significance of, and reconsider our relationship with, nonhumans and Earthâs materiality
Iris Murdoch and the Ethical Imagination: Legacies and Innovations
Ce numĂ©ro dâĂtudes britanniques contemporaines est issu des travaux do colloque de la SEAC organisĂ© par Camille Fort et Marie Laniel en octobre 2019 Ă lâUniversitĂ© dâAmiens-Jules Verne. Tous nos remerciements sâadressent aux membres des comitĂ©s dâorganisation de ces manifestations ainsi quâaux chargĂ©es dâĂ©dition du prĂ©sent volume. This issue of Ătudes britanniques contemporaines offers a selection of papers given during the SEAC conference convened by Camille Fort and Marie Laniel in October 2019 at the UniversitĂ© dâAmiens-Jules Verne. We would like to express our gratitude to the members of the organising committee and to the guest editors of this volume