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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... called " the unitary consciousness , " or , as it is sometimes called , " the unifying vision . " We may contrast the mystical con- sciousness with our ordinary , everyday , rational consciousness . Our ordinary , everyday consciousness ...
... called " the unitary consciousness , " or , as it is sometimes called , " the unifying vision . " We may contrast the mystical con- sciousness with our ordinary , everyday , rational consciousness . Our ordinary , everyday consciousness ...
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... called René Descartes - provoked a crisis in Ludwig's intellectual life . After reading a work of his called Meditations - Ludwig was for many months distressed by the thought that all his most cherished beliefs might be mistaken and ...
... called René Descartes - provoked a crisis in Ludwig's intellectual life . After reading a work of his called Meditations - Ludwig was for many months distressed by the thought that all his most cherished beliefs might be mistaken and ...
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... called Hume did a little to reassure him , for the views to which he leaned seemed so preposterous when actually seen in black and white that reading them in Hume's words brought home to him their manifest absurdity . What nonsense to ...
... called Hume did a little to reassure him , for the views to which he leaned seemed so preposterous when actually seen in black and white that reading them in Hume's words brought home to him their manifest absurdity . What nonsense to ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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