ON IRIS MURDOCH’S HEROES’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS ART (BY THE EXAMPLE OF ATTITUDE TOWARDS MUSIC)
Abstract
The article considers the ambiguous role of art in general and music in particular in the novels by Iris Murdoch in comparison with the writer’s interpretation of Plato’s attitude towards art and artist which is under discussion in Murdoch’s philosophical work “The Fire and the Sun: why Plato banished the artists”. Murdoch’s sympathetic attitude to Plato’s interpretation of art as something multiplying human illusions does not prevent her from justifying art and claiming that the great art leads the way towards truth and good.
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- Published: June 1, 2016.
Keywords
- Айрис Мёрдок
- музыка
- парадоксальное отношение к искусству
- иллюзорность
- реальность
- Iris Murdoch
- music
- paradoxical attitude towards art
- illusiveness
- reality
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