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AGAMI SOBOL, Margot. The Sense of an Ending in Iris Murdoch’s Bruno’s Dream. Rev. filos. Univ. Iberoam. [online]. 2022, vol.54, n.153, pp.46-74.  Epub 17-Maio-2024. ISSN 2954-4602.  https://doi.org/10.48102/rdf.v54i153.140.

The plot of the novel Bruno’s Dream points to potential endings or closures, past situations that have not been fully resolved and that keep the characters in a kind of impasse or inability to act. We will review a part of Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy in her text “The Idea of Perfection”, second section of her text The Sovereignty of Good (1970). Murdoch introduces the concepts of “attention”, “vision” and “perfection”, to carry out a critique of the genetic analysis of moral concepts, which leaves out the possibility of change: the possibility that we are able to pay more attention to what is happening around us and then to transform or modify our concepts and narratives. Human moral activity consists in the constant attempt to perfect such narratives.

Palavras-chave : narrative; action; attention; vision; perfection.