La soberanía del bien sobre la belleza: filosofía, literatura y arte en Iris Murdoch

Abstract

In this article we analyze the relationship between philosophy, literature, and art in the work of Iris Murdoch, paying special attention to the role that philosophy plays in her narrative work, the differences and similarities between literature and philosophy according to her own theoretical approaches, as well as her aesthetic reflections on the essence of literature and art in connection with the idea of Good, central to her Platonic vision of ethics and reality. Her double status as a novelist and philosopher constitutes a privileged point of view for this type of reflection in which both philosophy and literature, as well as ethics and aesthetics, go hand in hand.