Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Interpreting Philosophy into Practical Life -- 1. Issues in the Critical Reception of Murdoch's Thought -- 2. Ascetic Meanings in Murdoch's Philosophy -- 3. The Structure of the Book -- 4. Conclusion --...
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Interpreting Philosophy into Practical Life -- 1. Issues in the Critical Reception of Murdoch's Thought -- 2. Ascetic Meanings in Murdoch's Philosophy -- 3. The Structure of the Book -- 4. Conclusion -- PART I: METAPHYSICS AND THE IDEA OF THE INDIVIDUAL -- Chapter One: The Virtues of Metaphysics -- 1. A Complex Legacy -- 2. Murdoch and Contemporary Ethics -- 3. Existentialists and Mystics -- 4. Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals -- 5. Resources for Moral Reflection -- Chapter Two: Form and Contingency -- 1. Metaphysics and the Problem of the Individual -- 2. Form and Contingency in the Novel -- 3. Metaphysics and Empiricism in Moral Theory -- 4. Consciousness and the Good in the Ontological Proof -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter Three: The Consolations of Literature -- 1. Art and Morality -- 2. The Rise of Antitheory and the Turn to Literature -- 3. Metaphysics and the Recovery of Theory -- 4. Paradoxes of Form in the Realistic Novel -- 5. Beyond the Debate: Reopening the Question of Language -- PART II: RELIGION AND THE DEMAND OF THE GOOD -- Chapter Four: Imagining the Good without God -- 1. The Rejection of Theism: Kant and Plato -- 2. The Ontological Proof and the Claim of the Good -- 3. The Transformation of Consciousness -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter Five: The Return of Spiritual Exercises -- 1. Recent Work on Asceticism -- 2. The Critique of Theory and the Return of Spiritual Exercises -- 3. A Typology of Approaches to Askesis -- 4. Toward a "Reflexive" Model of Askesis -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter Six: The Ascetic Impulse -- 1. The Saint and the Artist -- 2. Art and Morality in The Sovereignty of Good -- 3. Questioning the Ascetic Ideal -- 4. Paradoxes of Askesis -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter Seven: Religion and the Ubiquity of Value -- 1. Murdoch and the Contemporary Study of Religion.
