• ISBN13: 9781032160689
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Religion and Philosophy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics
• Publication Date: August 11, 2023
• Pages: 101
• Original Price: INR 425.0
• Language: English
• Edition: 2
• Item Weight: 220 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): N/A

Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring the notion of ‘vision’ to moral thinking can this distortion be corrected. This brilliant work shows why Iris Murdoch remains essential reading: a vivid and uncompromising style, a commitment to forceful argument, and a courage to go against the grain. With a foreword by Mary Midgley.

Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) was one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century. She was awarded the 1978 Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea, won the Royal Society Literary Award in 1987, and was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 by Queen Elizabeth. Her final years were clouded by a long struggle with Alzheimer's before her passing in 1999.