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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... conclusion . But as the question is yet new , every reader may not trust so far to his own penetration , as to conclude , because an argument escapes his inquiry , that therefore it does not really exist . For this reason it may be ...
... conclusion . But as the question is yet new , every reader may not trust so far to his own penetration , as to conclude , because an argument escapes his inquiry , that therefore it does not really exist . For this reason it may be ...
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... conclusions . Now it seems evident that , if this conclusion were formed by reason , it would be as perfect at first , and upon one instance , as after ever so long a course of experience . But the case is far otherwise . Nothing so ...
... conclusions . Now it seems evident that , if this conclusion were formed by reason , it would be as perfect at first , and upon one instance , as after ever so long a course of experience . But the case is far otherwise . Nothing so ...
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... conclusion , namely , that belief in God is true , i.e. useful , whereas what religion desires is the conclusion that God exists , which pragmatism never even approaches . I infer , therefore , that the pragmatic philosophy of religion ...
... conclusion , namely , that belief in God is true , i.e. useful , whereas what religion desires is the conclusion that God exists , which pragmatism never even approaches . I infer , therefore , that the pragmatic philosophy of religion ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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