The Problems of Philosophy: Introductory ReadingsWilliam P. Alston, Richard B. Brandt |
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... nature " except those of chemistry and physics , or perhaps those of physics alone , it might still be the case that if there is in nature an underlying purpose and a good one , the evidence of its presence only becomes visible to us ...
... nature " except those of chemistry and physics , or perhaps those of physics alone , it might still be the case that if there is in nature an underlying purpose and a good one , the evidence of its presence only becomes visible to us ...
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... nature by whose law the very same feeling whose func- tion ( Bestimmung ) is to stimulate the furtherance of life should actually de- stroy life would contradict itself and consequently could not subsist as a system of nature . Hence ...
... nature by whose law the very same feeling whose func- tion ( Bestimmung ) is to stimulate the furtherance of life should actually de- stroy life would contradict itself and consequently could not subsist as a system of nature . Hence ...
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... nature ; we can reform or deteriorate . But is not the reforming or deteriorating impulse also in our nature ? Or , if it is not in us , how can we be responsible for it ? I will not add to the many discussions of this difficulty , for ...
... nature ; we can reform or deteriorate . But is not the reforming or deteriorating impulse also in our nature ? Or , if it is not in us , how can we be responsible for it ? I will not add to the many discussions of this difficulty , for ...
Contents
The Inconceivability of Gods Nonexistence | 1 |
From Nature to | 2 |
A Critique of the Argument from Design | 3 |
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