La soberanía del bien

Before becoming the great novelist that she was, Iris Murdoch devoted herself intensely to philosophy, bravely confronting the analytical and existentialist circles of the day and searching for a way out of the post-war wasteland of Europe. A specialist in Plato, related to the Wittgenstein school, but always radically independent, Murdoch brought together in The Sovereignty of Good (1970) three lectures that summarize what had been his philosophical research since the 1950s. Unlike most of his With colleagues at Oxford and Cambridge, Murdoch was interested above all in the moral life and in the real possibilities that human beings have to become a better person. The idea of Good in a world without God was always her main concern and she dedicates these three combative and edifying essays to it. In this edition, Andreu Jaume offers us a new annotated translation of this classic of thought as well as a long introductory essay that studies the life, philosophy and novels of who was defined in her time as "the most brilliant woman in England".