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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... determined . And if the argument is that in a determined world , where our choices are bound to be what they are , it is unfair to blame anybody for any action to which that choice leads , how would we be better off , i.e. , more ...
... determined . And if the argument is that in a determined world , where our choices are bound to be what they are , it is unfair to blame anybody for any action to which that choice leads , how would we be better off , i.e. , more ...
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... determined with judgments of blame and responsibility , I do not see that there is any difficulty in squaring the belief that all choices are determined with the moral judgment that these choices , and the actions to which they lead ...
... determined with judgments of blame and responsibility , I do not see that there is any difficulty in squaring the belief that all choices are determined with the moral judgment that these choices , and the actions to which they lead ...
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... determined than that of the stupid man's but because the choice , which is determined among other things by insight into reasons , is generally more informed , more persistent , and more decisive in redetermining the stream of events ...
... determined than that of the stupid man's but because the choice , which is determined among other things by insight into reasons , is generally more informed , more persistent , and more decisive in redetermining the stream of events ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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