Philosophy: Paradox and DiscoveryPHILOSOPHY: PARADOX AND DISCOVERY, 4/e presents philosophy as an immediate, vital, and challenging process of discovery. The text has been specifically designed to help students evaluate their beliefs on basic issues and to see philosophy as a process of discovering and examining the paradoxes inherent in those issues. The forty-one readings in PHILOSOPHY: PARADOX AND DISCOVERY are drawn from classic and contemporary sources. |
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... according to him , is an absurdity . Aquinas's fifth argument , from " the governance of the world , " is an early rendition of an argument which became popular several centuries later . This is called the teleological argument , from ...
... according to him , is an absurdity . Aquinas's fifth argument , from " the governance of the world , " is an early rendition of an argument which became popular several centuries later . This is called the teleological argument , from ...
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... according to their real greatness , but according to their proportion to each other ; and therefore , since this interruption makes an object cease to appear the same , it must be the uninterrupted progress of the thought which ...
... according to their real greatness , but according to their proportion to each other ; and therefore , since this interruption makes an object cease to appear the same , it must be the uninterrupted progress of the thought which ...
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... according to Russell ? What does he say " the Good " is ? How does Russell relate moral rules and the Good ? Which of these is a matter for science ? Which is not ? 2 What is the distinctive character of a scientific problem according ...
... according to Russell ? What does he say " the Good " is ? How does Russell relate moral rules and the Good ? Which of these is a matter for science ? Which is not ? 2 What is the distinctive character of a scientific problem according ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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