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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... existence is a quality or predicate , and ( 2 ) existence , like wisdom and unlike physical size , is a great - making quality or predicate . Someone might accept ( 1 ) but object to ( 2 ) ; the objection made famous by Kant , however ...
... existence is a quality or predicate , and ( 2 ) existence , like wisdom and unlike physical size , is a great - making quality or predicate . Someone might accept ( 1 ) but object to ( 2 ) ; the objection made famous by Kant , however ...
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... existence is lacking ( that is to say , to whom a certain perfection is lacking ) , than to conceive of a mountain which has no valley . But although I cannot really conceive of a God without existence any more than a mountain with- out ...
... existence is lacking ( that is to say , to whom a certain perfection is lacking ) , than to conceive of a mountain which has no valley . But although I cannot really conceive of a God without existence any more than a mountain with- out ...
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... EXISTENCE OF OTHER THINGS 1. The knowledge of our own being we have by intuition . The existence of a God , reason clearly makes known to us , as has been shown . The knowledge of the existence of any other thing we can have only by ...
... EXISTENCE OF OTHER THINGS 1. The knowledge of our own being we have by intuition . The existence of a God , reason clearly makes known to us , as has been shown . The knowledge of the existence of any other thing we can have only by ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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