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 560
... happiness and the means of attaining it . Nature would have taken over not only the choice of ends but also that of the means , and with wise foresight she would have entrusted both to instinct alone . And , in fact , we find that the ...
... happiness and the means of attaining it . Nature would have taken over not only the choice of ends but also that of the means , and with wise foresight she would have entrusted both to instinct alone . And , in fact , we find that the ...
Page 564
... happiness . The hypothetical imperative which represents the practical necessity of action as means to the promotion of happiness is an assertor- ical imperative . We may not expound it as merely necessary to an uncertain and a merely ...
... happiness . The hypothetical imperative which represents the practical necessity of action as means to the promotion of happiness is an assertor- ical imperative . We may not expound it as merely necessary to an uncertain and a merely ...
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... happiness and the good of the whole - especially between his own happiness , and the practice of such modes of con- duct , negative and positive , as regard for the univer- sal happiness prescribes - so that not only he may be unable to ...
... happiness and the good of the whole - especially between his own happiness , and the practice of such modes of con- duct , negative and positive , as regard for the univer- sal happiness prescribes - so that not only he may be unable to ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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