2022
DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12820
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Murdoch's ontological argument

Abstract: The image of God plays a conspicuous role in Iris Murdoch's moral philosophy. Like many of her contemporaries, she sees the idea of God as one which we can no longer be truly comfortable with -one which, in the words of Paul Tillich, has come to feel like a 'strange body' imposed on the human mind, or else like a simple impossibility. ii Unlike many of her contemporaries, however, Murdoch's attempts to reinvigorate morality in the absence of God do not do away with every aspect of the idea of God. She thinks t… Show more

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“…This is not to say that the answer to that ques-26. See Mason and Dougherty (2022) for the related idea that the reality of the Good consists in its reality as an ideal, i.e., the fact it is a genuine ideal rather than a false one (2022: 12).…”
Section: Murdochian Moral Realismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is not to say that the answer to that ques-26. See Mason and Dougherty (2022) for the related idea that the reality of the Good consists in its reality as an ideal, i.e., the fact it is a genuine ideal rather than a false one (2022: 12).…”
Section: Murdochian Moral Realismmentioning
confidence: 99%