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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... problem areas . Each of the five sections begins with a short essay designed to confront the student with the paradoxes infecting this part of experience . Then , each problem area is introduced by an essay that furnishes the unifying ...
... problem areas . Each of the five sections begins with a short essay designed to confront the student with the paradoxes infecting this part of experience . Then , each problem area is introduced by an essay that furnishes the unifying ...
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... PROBLEM STATED Evil is a problem for the theist in that a contradiction is involved in the fact of evil on the one hand , and the belief in the omnipotence and perfection of God on the other . God cannot be both all - powerful and ...
... PROBLEM STATED Evil is a problem for the theist in that a contradiction is involved in the fact of evil on the one hand , and the belief in the omnipotence and perfection of God on the other . God cannot be both all - powerful and ...
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... problem often takes one a long way on the road to its solution . In the case of the Free Will problem I think there is a rather special need of careful formulation . For there are many sorts of human freedom ; and it can easily happen ...
... problem often takes one a long way on the road to its solution . In the case of the Free Will problem I think there is a rather special need of careful formulation . For there are many sorts of human freedom ; and it can easily happen ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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