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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... doubt the existence of all physical things , I should be able to doubt the existence of myself . But , indeed , this is the one thing it is meaningless to doubt . Therefore , the self cannot be a physical thing . In this way Descartes ...
... doubt the existence of all physical things , I should be able to doubt the existence of myself . But , indeed , this is the one thing it is meaningless to doubt . Therefore , the self cannot be a physical thing . In this way Descartes ...
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... doubt . It does not doubt all things , for this is clearly impossible . But it does question whatever lacks adequate evidence in its support . Science is not satisfied with psychological certitude , for the mere intensity with which a ...
... doubt . It does not doubt all things , for this is clearly impossible . But it does question whatever lacks adequate evidence in its support . Science is not satisfied with psychological certitude , for the mere intensity with which a ...
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... doubt about the true answer to that question which leads most people to doubt the reality of moral responsibility . Yet on this crucial question the hypothetical proposition which is offered as a sufficient statement of the condition ...
... doubt about the true answer to that question which leads most people to doubt the reality of moral responsibility . Yet on this crucial question the hypothetical proposition which is offered as a sufficient statement of the condition ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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