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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... qualities and yet is without any qualities at all . On the positive side the qualities of Brahman are the usual divine qualities to which I have already referred . On the negative side he is " unqualified . " This is often expressed in ...
... qualities and yet is without any qualities at all . On the positive side the qualities of Brahman are the usual divine qualities to which I have already referred . On the negative side he is " unqualified . " This is often expressed in ...
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... qualities enough to secure the reality of external things ... Philonous : The objects you speak of are , I suppose , corporeal substances existing without the mind . Hylas : They are . Philonous : And have true and real colours inhering ...
... qualities enough to secure the reality of external things ... Philonous : The objects you speak of are , I suppose , corporeal substances existing without the mind . Hylas : They are . Philonous : And have true and real colours inhering ...
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... qualities , without the aid of experience ; contrary to the sentiment of all philosophers , and contrary to plain matter of fact . Here , then , is our natural state of ignorance with regard to the powers and influence of all objects ...
... qualities , without the aid of experience ; contrary to the sentiment of all philosophers , and contrary to plain matter of fact . Here , then , is our natural state of ignorance with regard to the powers and influence of all objects ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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