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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... answer , and if there were , it would be an answer only because it had succeeded in supplying the characteristic satisfaction to this unique desire . But may it not be that what satisfies thought fails to conform to the real world ...
... answer , and if there were , it would be an answer only because it had succeeded in supplying the characteristic satisfaction to this unique desire . But may it not be that what satisfies thought fails to conform to the real world ...
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... answer not , as one might immediately suppose , at a catalogue of the world's good , right things . The moralist is not asking for a list of sheep and goats . The case of the obliging stranger is a case of immoral action , but this ...
... answer not , as one might immediately suppose , at a catalogue of the world's good , right things . The moralist is not asking for a list of sheep and goats . The case of the obliging stranger is a case of immoral action , but this ...
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... answer this early in the game , although he will have to accept precisely the same kind of answer at some time or other . Presumably there is some advantage in postponing the stop , and this advantage lies in the explanatory power of ...
... answer this early in the game , although he will have to accept precisely the same kind of answer at some time or other . Presumably there is some advantage in postponing the stop , and this advantage lies in the explanatory power of ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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