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Throughout his career, Bobby Cohen has been a staunch, articulate advocate of secular humanism. Being a fellow champion of philosophical naturalism, I wish to honor him by defending here a view of the world that is dear to both of our hearts. This essay is thus a more philosophical tribute to him than my dedication to him of my 1993 book Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis (see Note 42).
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E.g., in the special issue ‘The Case for Ethical Monotheism’, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1991.
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See Christopher P. Tourney’s review of The Creationist Movement in Modern America by R. A. Eve and F. B. Harrold, American Scientist, Vol. 80, May-June 1992, p. 292.
Quoted from Buber’s paper ‘The Dialogue Between Heaven and Earth’ in: Paul Edwards and Arthur Pap, A Modern Introduction to Philosophy (Third ed.). New York: The Free Press, 1973, pp. 394-395.
Paul Edwards, ‘Buber, Fackenheim and the Appeal to Biblical Faith’ in: Edwards & Pap, A Modern Introduction to PhilosophyNew York: The Free Press, 1973, p. 395.
Eclipse of God. New York: Harper, 1952, p. 66; see also pp. 105-106.
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Op. cit., note 15, p. 395.
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In The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible. New York: Knopf, 1992.
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Grünbaum, A. (1995). The Poverty of Theistic Morality. In: Gavroglu, K., Stachel, J., Wartofsky, M.W. (eds) Science, Mind and Art. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 165. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0469-2_13
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