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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... living organisms to the existence of a supreme designer no longer appears credible . Moreover , the argument loses all its force if the facts which the hypothesis of a divine designer is supposed to explain can be understood on the ...
... living organisms to the existence of a supreme designer no longer appears credible . Moreover , the argument loses all its force if the facts which the hypothesis of a divine designer is supposed to explain can be understood on the ...
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... living . In consequence , atheists have made important contributions to the development of a climate of opinion favorable to pursuing the values of a liberal civilization and they have played effective roles in attempts to rectify ...
... living . In consequence , atheists have made important contributions to the development of a climate of opinion favorable to pursuing the values of a liberal civilization and they have played effective roles in attempts to rectify ...
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... living , and pursuing each successive object , as passion directs . For to such persons , as to the incontinent , knowledge brings no profit ; but to those who desire and act in accordance with a rational principle knowledge about such ...
... living , and pursuing each successive object , as passion directs . For to such persons , as to the incontinent , knowledge brings no profit ; but to those who desire and act in accordance with a rational principle knowledge about such ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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