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Iris Murdoch

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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch, born 15 July 1919 and died 8 February 1999, was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher best known for her novels exploring good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1919 1
Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1919-07-15 1
Death YearSourced to the subject's own account
1999 1
Death DateSourced to the subject's own account
1999-02-08 1
TraditionSourced to the subject's own account
Moral philosophy (Platonist ethics) 1
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United Kingdom 1
Tradition
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Platonism 1
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Source Iris Murdoch (Wikipedia)Lead sentence 1tier 3
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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher.
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    Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 - 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.
  • In Group: Virtue Ethics, Infobox: school_tradition
    Analytic philosophy, Virtue ethics, Modern Platonism
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Wikidata: Iris Murdoch
Wikidata Q217495, class allow-list match, case-insensitive label variant (w-bbfill-smallsix2-0926/resolve_ci.ps1)View the Source
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Iris Murdoch
Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyIn Branch: Ethics, Abstract
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Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was a prominent British philosopher of the second half of the 20 th century, best known for her moral philosophy.
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