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TRUE NATURALISM, GOODNESS, AND GOD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2020

Fiona Ellis
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Abstract

I defend a form of naturalism which has much in common with Iris Murdoch's ‘true naturalism’, but I argue that it can accommodate God. I consider what it could mean for naturalism to be theistic in this sense, and respond to the charge that it leaves no room for the transcendent.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 19 , Issue 56 , Autumn 2020 , pp. 109 - 120
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy, 2020

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17 Ibid.

18 Ibid. 30.

19 Ibid. 32.

20 See Cottingham, J., ‘Transcending Science: Humane Models of Religious Understanding’, in Ellis, F. (ed.) New Models of Religious Understanding (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 39Google Scholar.

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