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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... reason . For God , Who is often said to be ever present , is at the very least able to be present almost anywhere at ... reason for thinking Him less than good , powerful , and wise . So reason can in principle both prove and disprove ...
... reason . For God , Who is often said to be ever present , is at the very least able to be present almost anywhere at ... reason for thinking Him less than good , powerful , and wise . So reason can in principle both prove and disprove ...
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... reason . And if , over and above this , reason should have been granted to the favored creature , it would have served only to let it contemplate the happy constitution of its nature , to admire it , to rejoice in it , and to be ...
... reason . And if , over and above this , reason should have been granted to the favored creature , it would have served only to let it contemplate the happy constitution of its nature , to admire it , to rejoice in it , and to be ...
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... reason for my wonderment . What is it ? Well , of course there is not any reason that is a reason about the obliging stranger . There is only a reason because I am a fallibilist , or because one must not be arbitrary , or because all ...
... reason for my wonderment . What is it ? Well , of course there is not any reason that is a reason about the obliging stranger . There is only a reason because I am a fallibilist , or because one must not be arbitrary , or because all ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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