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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Page 261
... action , and virtue is a state of character which produces rational action . Aristotle does not attempt to lay down rules for everyone to obey , since what is rational will depend to some extent upon the context . Still , this is not ...
... action , and virtue is a state of character which produces rational action . Aristotle does not attempt to lay down rules for everyone to obey , since what is rational will depend to some extent upon the context . Still , this is not ...
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... actions , or kinds of action ; " ought " has the sense " ought , all things considered . " ( i ) may be translated as : " A person ought to do a specific action , all things considered , if and only if that action is in that person's ...
... actions , or kinds of action ; " ought " has the sense " ought , all things considered . " ( i ) may be translated as : " A person ought to do a specific action , all things considered , if and only if that action is in that person's ...
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... actions to which they lead , are good or bad . Pain is evil , and an intentional action which imposes unnecessary pain , or a desire to impose unnecessary pain , is wicked . After all , we blame persons only for those acts of omission ...
... actions to which they lead , are good or bad . Pain is evil , and an intentional action which imposes unnecessary pain , or a desire to impose unnecessary pain , is wicked . After all , we blame persons only for those acts of omission ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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