Trascendiendo al yo ensimismado. La ética de la atención de Iris Murdoch

Abstract

Many of moral dilemmas would lose its intensity, thinks Iris Murdoch, if we left the confused idea of a sovereign will that chooses independently its courses of action. Paying attention to what constitutes the reality enables a sort of asceticism of the experience, that leads beyond the deliriums of an I absorbed. The exercise of estimating the details, the connections, the complexity, modifies the decision itself: it does not be a matter of electing, but of “seeing” the moral thing -the demand of the thing-, the same as an exact artist does not paint what “he likes” but “what it is there”.