Heythrop Journal 52 (6):993-1008 (2011)
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This is a rebuttal of influential attempts to appropriate Murdoch for either Christianity or Buddhism. I show that Maria Antonaccio and Peter Byrne ignore Murdoch's explicit statements and misunderstand Murdoch’s interest in the Ontological Argument. I explain how St. Anselm’s remark ‘I believe in order to understand’ is properly connected with Murdoch’s parable of the Mother-in-Law: Murdoch is here offering support for a virtue epistemology. Later, I explore the merits and dangers of exegesis from Peter J. Conradi and Gordon Graham treating Murdoch as a kind of Buddhist. I argue that the sense in which Murdoch is speaking as a ‘ Buddhist Christian’ makes her a third kind of thinker resembling a Buddhist on some points, and a Christian on others
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Keywords | Epistemology Theology Moral Philosophy Virtue Ethics Plato Iris Murdoch Maria Antonaccio Peter Byrne Peter J. Conradi Katsuki Sekida |
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DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2010.00645.x |
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