The Problems of Philosophy: Introductory ReadingsWilliam P. Alston, Richard B. Brandt |
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... human needs and impulses . The conceptions of the human good they have advocated are conceptions which are commensurate with the actual capacities of mortal men , so that it is the satisfaction of the complex needs of the human creature ...
... human needs and impulses . The conceptions of the human good they have advocated are conceptions which are commensurate with the actual capacities of mortal men , so that it is the satisfaction of the complex needs of the human creature ...
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... human beings in other respects , would not be what we mean by persons . They would constitute a different form of life which God might have brought into existence instead of persons . When we ask why God did not create such beings in ...
... human beings in other respects , would not be what we mean by persons . They would constitute a different form of life which God might have brought into existence instead of persons . When we ask why God did not create such beings in ...
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... human motives and actions , as well as in the operations of body . Hence , likewise , the benefit of that experience , acquired by long life and a variety of business and company , in order to instruct us in the principles of human ...
... human motives and actions , as well as in the operations of body . Hence , likewise , the benefit of that experience , acquired by long life and a variety of business and company , in order to instruct us in the principles of human ...
Contents
The Inconceivability of Gods Nonexistence | 1 |
From Nature to | 2 |
A Critique of the Argument from Design | 3 |
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