Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of PhilosophyJoel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-Landau The Tenth Edition of this leading, topically-organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and recent material. The text covers reason and religious belief; human knowledge; mind and its place in nature; determinism; free will and responsibility; and morality and justice in five parts, with careful attention to opposing points of view. |
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... argument has ever purported to be wholly independent of experience , namely , the onto- logical argument , invented by St. Anselm in the eleventh century and defended in one form or another by Descartes , Spinoza , and Leibniz in the ...
... argument has ever purported to be wholly independent of experience , namely , the onto- logical argument , invented by St. Anselm in the eleventh century and defended in one form or another by Descartes , Spinoza , and Leibniz in the ...
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... Argument from Design * William Paley ( 1743-1805 ). The Cosmological Argument * WILLIAM L. ROWE SINCE ANCIENT TIMES thoughtful people have sought to justify their religious beliefs . Perhaps the ... Argument 21 Rowe: The Cosmological ...
... Argument from Design * William Paley ( 1743-1805 ). The Cosmological Argument * WILLIAM L. ROWE SINCE ANCIENT TIMES thoughtful people have sought to justify their religious beliefs . Perhaps the ... Argument 21 Rowe: The Cosmological ...
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... Argument has two parts . In the first part the effort is to prove the existence of a special sort of being , for example , a being that could not have failed to exist , or a being that causes change in other things but is itself ...
... Argument has two parts . In the first part the effort is to prove the existence of a special sort of being , for example , a being that could not have failed to exist , or a being that causes change in other things but is itself ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
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