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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... authority within a given territory or over a certain population . A nomadic tribe may exhibit the authority structure of a state , so long as its subjects do not fall under the superior authority of a territorial state.1 The state may ...
... authority within a given territory or over a certain population . A nomadic tribe may exhibit the authority structure of a state , so long as its subjects do not fall under the superior authority of a territorial state.1 The state may ...
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... authority within a territory . The discovery , analysis , and demonstra- tion of the forms and principles of legitimate authority - of the right to rule - is called political philosophy . What is meant by supreme authority ? Some ...
... authority within a territory . The discovery , analysis , and demonstra- tion of the forms and principles of legitimate authority - of the right to rule - is called political philosophy . What is meant by supreme authority ? Some ...
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... authority over another ? The same question can be restated , Under what conditions can a state ( understood normatively ) exist ? Kant has given us a convenient title for this sort of investigation . He called it a " deduction ...
... authority over another ? The same question can be restated , Under what conditions can a state ( understood normatively ) exist ? Kant has given us a convenient title for this sort of investigation . He called it a " deduction ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
Copyright | |
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