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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... object be picked out by the con- cept of a " magican " ? No , for no non - existing thing could exemplify the ... object at all . For if all the possible objects which are magicians are non - existing things , none of them would be a ...
... object be picked out by the con- cept of a " magican " ? No , for no non - existing thing could exemplify the ... object at all . For if all the possible objects which are magicians are non - existing things , none of them would be a ...
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... object itself . In contrast , when we perceive a secondary quality , our " idea " of this quality has no resemblance to a corresponding property of the thing itself . That is , our " idea " of , for instance , color or odor in an object ...
... object itself . In contrast , when we perceive a secondary quality , our " idea " of this quality has no resemblance to a corresponding property of the thing itself . That is , our " idea " of , for instance , color or odor in an object ...
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... object that transports the mind to what is contiguous ; but it is only the actual presence of an object that transports it with a superior vivacity . When I am a few miles from home , whatever relates to it touches me more nearly than ...
... object that transports the mind to what is contiguous ; but it is only the actual presence of an object that transports it with a superior vivacity . When I am a few miles from home , whatever relates to it touches me more nearly than ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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