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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... happiness was intrinsically good . There are some persons who do not deserve to be happy . A world of happy Hitlers is not the best of all possible worlds . Kant argues that the only thing that is intrinsically good is a good will . In ...
... happiness was intrinsically good . There are some persons who do not deserve to be happy . A world of happy Hitlers is not the best of all possible worlds . Kant argues that the only thing that is intrinsically good is a good will . In ...
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... happiness is desirable , except that each person , so far as he believes it to be attainable , desires his own happiness . This , however , being a fact , we have not only all the proof which the case admits of , but all which it is ...
... happiness is desirable , except that each person , so far as he believes it to be attainable , desires his own happiness . This , however , being a fact , we have not only all the proof which the case admits of , but all which it is ...
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... happiness principle . The ingredients of happiness are very various , and each of them is desirable in itself , and not merely when considered as swelling an aggregate . The principle of utility does not mean that any given pleasure ...
... happiness principle . The ingredients of happiness are very various , and each of them is desirable in itself , and not merely when considered as swelling an aggregate . The principle of utility does not mean that any given pleasure ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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