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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Ninian Smart
Ninian Smart
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University of Birmingham.
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The chief point in Professor Flew's reply is this. God could have made men perfectly good, not by altering their inclinations, as I suggested in my main Utopia, but by boosting the forces which resist temptations. All men would need is more strength of character and more sense of duty. Perhaps I was psychically blind not to go into this. Let us do so now. (1) Flew seems to have a monolithic idea of the concepts sense of duty and strength of character, as though these have nothing to do with particular dispositions like courage (which I did discuss).

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Philosophy , Volume 37 , Issue 139 , January 1962 , pp. 60
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1962

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