著者

横山 千枝子

出版者

英米文化学会

雑誌

英米文化 (ISSN:09173536)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.25, pp.47-56, 1995

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Murdoch thinks that love is to recognize others and to regard them as independent from and equal to oneself as well as to respect them. Moreover, she thinks that love can be acquired by being attentive to God. She says that both God and Good are the concordant point of everything which is located far from ourselves. In Unicorn, Hannah, who lives in Gaze Castle and is the heroine of this novel, finds comfort in agony. She is captured by the illusion that others and even she herself regards her as God, until she dies. Max, who is a scholar studying Plato, knows Good through books but cannot enter the situation of Good. He, who becomes Hannah's heir after her death, is captured by age and books. Through their attitudes to God and Good, Murdoch develops her idea about God and Good in her work. First, I will examine how the idea of Murdoch about God and Good is treated and then examine Murdoch's idea that God is identified with Good.