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 83
... less intense struggles , less magnificent triumphs but more triumphs and fewer defeats , or a world in which there are no struggles , no triumphs and no defeats ? We are constantly answering less easy questions that this in a way that ...
... less intense struggles , less magnificent triumphs but more triumphs and fewer defeats , or a world in which there are no struggles , no triumphs and no defeats ? We are constantly answering less easy questions that this in a way that ...
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... less than four - and - twenty hours these be totally altered , this hinders not the river from continuing the same during several ages . What is natural and essential to anything is , in a manner , expected ; and what is expected makes less ...
... less than four - and - twenty hours these be totally altered , this hinders not the river from continuing the same during several ages . What is natural and essential to anything is , in a manner , expected ; and what is expected makes less ...
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... less than against external enemies . To prevent the weaker members of the community from being preyed upon by innumerable vultures , it was needful that there should be an animal of prey stronger than the rest , commissioned to keep ...
... less than against external enemies . To prevent the weaker members of the community from being preyed upon by innumerable vultures , it was needful that there should be an animal of prey stronger than the rest , commissioned to keep ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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