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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... cause . In the world of sensible things we find there is an order of efficient causes . There is no case known ( neither is it , indeed , possible ) in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself ; for so it would be ...
... cause . In the world of sensible things we find there is an order of efficient causes . There is no case known ( neither is it , indeed , possible ) in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself ; for so it would be ...
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... cause less perfect than God . This cannot be , because , as I have just said , it is perfectly evident that there must be at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect ; and thus since I am a thinking thing , and possess an ...
... cause less perfect than God . This cannot be , because , as I have just said , it is perfectly evident that there must be at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect ; and thus since I am a thinking thing , and possess an ...
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... cause ; neither are they the cause of themselves or of one another , or capa- ble of subsisting by themselves , as being altogether inactive , fleeting , dependent beings . They have therefore some cause distinct from me and them , of ...
... cause ; neither are they the cause of themselves or of one another , or capa- ble of subsisting by themselves , as being altogether inactive , fleeting , dependent beings . They have therefore some cause distinct from me and them , of ...
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The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
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