Sublime

‘Anselm's ontological argument’.1 In one version or another, ontological arguments are particularly appealing to many philosophers. This appeal has something to do with the remarkable fact that we are supposed to be able to find out, just by thinking correctly, all that we need to know to see them prove their point.

Degrees of guilt can still be judged by reference to the facts of a case: the

Plato’s truth is identical not only with the beautiful, but with the good and the just.

realism, or a “realist empiricism.”117

What Murdoch took from this “admirable Platonist” was the conviction that seeing well is tantamount to doing well. Discerning the Good—the way the world truly is—whittles down our range of choices to just one.

intentions themselves come from, and what determines their character in every instance, remains perfectly mysterious in subjective terms.

The philosopher Erik Wielenberg argues for this, what he calls “non-natural non-theistic moral realism.”