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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... desire it . If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself were not , in theory and in practice ... desire happiness , but that they never desire anything else . Now it is palpable that they do desire things which , in ...
... desire it . If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself were not , in theory and in practice ... desire happiness , but that they never desire anything else . Now it is palpable that they do desire things which , in ...
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... desire nothing which is not either a part of happiness or a means of happiness - we can have no other proof , and we require no other , that these are the only things desirable . If so , happiness is the sole end of human action , and ...
... desire nothing which is not either a part of happiness or a means of happiness - we can have no other proof , and we require no other , that these are the only things desirable . If so , happiness is the sole end of human action , and ...
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... desire for itself , or desire only because we will it . It is not the less true that will , in the beginning , is entirely produced by desire , including in that term the repelling influence of pain as well as the attractive one of ...
... desire for itself , or desire only because we will it . It is not the less true that will , in the beginning , is entirely produced by desire , including in that term the repelling influence of pain as well as the attractive one of ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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