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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... mysticism and science are not opposed to one another . In this essay , Stace claims that the mystical traditions of the world have a common thread of paradox running through them . He argues that the sort of vision of reality which mystics ...
... mysticism and science are not opposed to one another . In this essay , Stace claims that the mystical traditions of the world have a common thread of paradox running through them . He argues that the sort of vision of reality which mystics ...
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... mystical experience in the West . In the Mohammedan religion the Sufis were the great representatives of mysticism . Mysticism appears in China in connection with Taoism . The Tao is a mystical conception . Judaism produced notable mystics ...
... mystical experience in the West . In the Mohammedan religion the Sufis were the great representatives of mysticism . Mysticism appears in China in connection with Taoism . The Tao is a mystical conception . Judaism produced notable mystics ...
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... mystical experience in all religions . It is non - sensuous , non - intellectual , and non - conceptual . And since all words except proper names stand for concepts , this means mystical experience is beyond all words , incapable of ...
... mystical experience in all religions . It is non - sensuous , non - intellectual , and non - conceptual . And since all words except proper names stand for concepts , this means mystical experience is beyond all words , incapable of ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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