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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Page 496
... desire is only to say that the act is our own . To demand that we should act on motives that are not our own is to ask us to make ourselves living contradictions in terms . " 7 7. But if argument 4a fails to prove its point , argument ...
... desire is only to say that the act is our own . To demand that we should act on motives that are not our own is to ask us to make ourselves living contradictions in terms . " 7 7. But if argument 4a fails to prove its point , argument ...
Page 500
... desire occurs , I think , rather rarely . When I am very hungry , I often desire to eat , or , more specifically , to eat this piece of steak and these potatoes . Much less often do I desire to eat certain morsels simply for the sake of ...
... desire occurs , I think , rather rarely . When I am very hungry , I often desire to eat , or , more specifically , to eat this piece of steak and these potatoes . Much less often do I desire to eat certain morsels simply for the sake of ...
Page 501
... desire only satisfaction of my desire for satisfaction of my desire for satisfac- tion ... etc. , ad infinitum . " I conclude then that psychological hedonism ( the most common form of psychological egoism ) , however interpreted , is ...
... desire only satisfaction of my desire for satisfaction of my desire for satisfac- tion ... etc. , ad infinitum . " I conclude then that psychological hedonism ( the most common form of psychological egoism ) , however interpreted , is ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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