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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... universe ? And if thought , as we may well suppose , be confined merely to this nar- row corner and has even there so limited a sphere of action , with what propriety can we assign it for the original cause of all things ? The narrow ...
... universe ? And if thought , as we may well suppose , be confined merely to this nar- row corner and has even there so limited a sphere of action , with what propriety can we assign it for the original cause of all things ? The narrow ...
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... universe , or , to speak in the language of ancient philosophy , so pro- digious an animal exceeds all analogy and even comprehension . But further , Cleanthes : Men are mortal , and re- new their species by generation ; and this is ...
... universe , or , to speak in the language of ancient philosophy , so pro- digious an animal exceeds all analogy and even comprehension . But further , Cleanthes : Men are mortal , and re- new their species by generation ; and this is ...
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... universe ; and were animals endowed with a large stock of powers and faculties , beyond what strict necessity requires , or were the several springs and principles of the universe so accurately framed as to preserve always the just ...
... universe ; and were animals endowed with a large stock of powers and faculties , beyond what strict necessity requires , or were the several springs and principles of the universe so accurately framed as to preserve always the just ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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