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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... feels . Certainly it is no small matter if all these things pertain to my nature . But why should they not so pertain ... feel heat . That cannot be false ; properly speaking it is what is in me called feeling , and used in this precise ...
... feels . Certainly it is no small matter if all these things pertain to my nature . But why should they not so pertain ... feel heat . That cannot be false ; properly speaking it is what is in me called feeling , and used in this precise ...
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... feel approval for at the time is right , what is the point of doubting and searching further ? Like the little girl in Boston who was asked if she would like to travel , we can answer , " Why should I travel when I'm already there ...
... feel approval for at the time is right , what is the point of doubting and searching further ? Like the little girl in Boston who was asked if she would like to travel , we can answer , " Why should I travel when I'm already there ...
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... feels fear or anger is not praised , nor is the man who simply feels anger blamed , but the man who feels it in a certain way ) , but for our virtues and our vices we are praised or blamed . Again , we feel anger and fear without choice ...
... feels fear or anger is not praised , nor is the man who simply feels anger blamed , but the man who feels it in a certain way ) , but for our virtues and our vices we are praised or blamed . Again , we feel anger and fear without choice ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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