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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... pleasure and hap- piness in the experience of some people proves that those people have strong desires for something other than their own happiness - egoistic hedonism to the contrary . The implications of the " paradox of hedonism ...
... pleasure and hap- piness in the experience of some people proves that those people have strong desires for something other than their own happiness - egoistic hedonism to the contrary . The implications of the " paradox of hedonism ...
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... pleasure . An apology is due to the philosophical opponents of utilitarian- ism for even the momentary appearance of con- founding them with any one capable of so absurd a misconception , which is the more extraordinary , in- asmuch as ...
... pleasure . An apology is due to the philosophical opponents of utilitarian- ism for even the momentary appearance of con- founding them with any one capable of so absurd a misconception , which is the more extraordinary , in- asmuch as ...
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... pleasures , or what makes one pleasure more valuable than another , merely as a pleasure , except its being greater in amount , there is but one possi- ble answer . Of two pleasures , if there be one to which all or almost all who have ...
... pleasures , or what makes one pleasure more valuable than another , merely as a pleasure , except its being greater in amount , there is but one possi- ble answer . Of two pleasures , if there be one to which all or almost all who have ...
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The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
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