The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with, Panizza Hardcover..

The Ethics of AttentionEngaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil\nAuthor(s): Silvia Caprioglio Panizza\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367756932, 978-0367756932\nSynopsis\nThis book draws on Iris Murdochs philosophy to explore questions related to the importance of attention in ethics. In doing so, it also engages with Murdochs ideas about the existence of a moral reality, the importance of love, and the necessity but also the difficulty, for most of us, of fighting against our natural self-centred tendencies.\n\nWhy is attention important to morality? This book argues that many moral failures and moral achievements can be explained by attention. Not only our actions and choices, but the possibilities we choose among, and even the meaning of what we perceive, are to a large extent determined by whether we pay attention, and what we attend to. In this way, the book argues that attention is fundamental, .