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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... body was moving to its natural place , we should expect that a heavier body would get to its state of rest faster than a lighter body . But this was not so . Perhaps the most startling discovery of all was Galileo's early work on ...
... body was moving to its natural place , we should expect that a heavier body would get to its state of rest faster than a lighter body . But this was not so . Perhaps the most startling discovery of all was Galileo's early work on ...
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... body problem , which he found as emotionally distressing as the solution itself was intellectually satisfying , was that his mind could no more exist apart from his body and the variegated activities in which it indulged than ...
... body problem , which he found as emotionally distressing as the solution itself was intellectually satisfying , was that his mind could no more exist apart from his body and the variegated activities in which it indulged than ...
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... body problem is collected in A. Flew ( ed . ) , Body , Mind , and Death ( New York : Macmillan , 1964 ) , G. N. A. Vesey ( ed . ) , Body and Mind ( London : G. Allen , 1964 ) , and Sidney Hook ( ed . ) , Dimensions of Mind ( New York ...
... body problem is collected in A. Flew ( ed . ) , Body , Mind , and Death ( New York : Macmillan , 1964 ) , G. N. A. Vesey ( ed . ) , Body and Mind ( London : G. Allen , 1964 ) , and Sidney Hook ( ed . ) , Dimensions of Mind ( New York ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
Copyright | |
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