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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Page xxiv
... force to keep them in motion . Whatever such a force was , it could not be material , for then it would need a further force to move it , ad infinitum . God was the logical solution . God was the wind in the sails of the universe ...
... force to keep them in motion . Whatever such a force was , it could not be material , for then it would need a further force to move it , ad infinitum . God was the logical solution . God was the wind in the sails of the universe ...
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... forces to account for this kind of case . Some said that the air behind the ball continued to push it along , and as this force died , the ball fell to earth . But to Galileo , such explanations seemed to be born of desperation ...
... forces to account for this kind of case . Some said that the air behind the ball continued to push it along , and as this force died , the ball fell to earth . But to Galileo , such explanations seemed to be born of desperation ...
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... force cease after this operation , matter must remain for ever in disorder , and continue an immense chaos , without any proportion or activity . But suppose , that the actuating force , whatever it be , still continues in matter , this ...
... force cease after this operation , matter must remain for ever in disorder , and continue an immense chaos , without any proportion or activity . But suppose , that the actuating force , whatever it be , still continues in matter , this ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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