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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... become just or unjust , and by doing the acts that we do in the presence of danger , and being habituated to feel fear or confidence , we become brave or cowardly . The same is true of appetites and feelings of anger ; some men become ...
... become just or unjust , and by doing the acts that we do in the presence of danger , and being habituated to feel fear or confidence , we become brave or cowardly . The same is true of appetites and feelings of anger ; some men become ...
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... become good , since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use ) , we must examine the nature of actions ... become temperate , and it is when we have become so that we are most able to abstain from them ; and similarly too in the ...
... become good , since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use ) , we must examine the nature of actions ... become temperate , and it is when we have become so that we are most able to abstain from them ; and similarly too in the ...
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... become a universal law ? If not , it must be rejected , not because of any disadvantage accruing to myself or even to others , but because it cannot enter as a principle into a possible universal legislation , and reason extorts from me ...
... become a universal law ? If not , it must be rejected , not because of any disadvantage accruing to myself or even to others , but because it cannot enter as a principle into a possible universal legislation , and reason extorts from me ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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