Recent scholarship has focused on the provocative suggestion that there is a deep unity linking the philosophical projects of Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, and Mary Midgley. In addition to providing scholars with the opportunity to consider what these four shared, the unanimity story also offers an occasion to reflect on what is distinctive about each. Whereas Anscombe, Foot, and Midgley each turn to broadly Aristotelian resources for developing an alternative to the dominant non-cognitivism of their day, Murdoch turns to Platonic ones. The nature of Murdoch's Platonism, however, is not always well understood and has been identified as a “recurring question.” This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing attempt to understand Murdoch's distinctive, Platonic alternative to the ethical non-cognitivism of her day. I contend that Murdoch's philosophical method, especially its transcendental elements, is an unexplored resource for better understanding the character of her Platonism as a modest one.

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论艾瑞斯·默多克哲学方法的先验结构

最近的学术研究集中于一个具有启发性的建议，即 Iris Murdoch、Elizabeth Anscombe、Philippa Foot 和 Mary Midgley 的哲学项目之间存在着深刻的统一。除了让学者们有机会思考这四人的共同点外，这个一致的故事还提供了一个机会来反思每个人的独特之处。Anscombe、Foot 和 Midgley 各自转向广泛的亚里士多德资源来开发替代当时占主导地位的非认知主义，而默多克则转向柏拉图式的资源。然而，默多克柏拉图主义的本质并不总是被很好地理解，并被认为是一个“反复出现的问题”。本文旨在为理解默多克独特的柏拉图式替代她那个时代的伦理非认知主义的持续尝试做出贡献。