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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... responsible for his own individuality , but that he is responsible for all men . The word subjectivism has two meanings , and our opponents play on the two . Subjectivism means , on the one hand , that an individual chooses and makes ...
... responsible for his own individuality , but that he is responsible for all men . The word subjectivism has two meanings , and our opponents play on the two . Subjectivism means , on the one hand , that an individual chooses and makes ...
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... responsible . They inveigh against the injustice of improperly blaming those who , because their desires and choices are deter- mined , are the victims not the agents of misfortune . This plea is sometimes forensically very effective ...
... responsible . They inveigh against the injustice of improperly blaming those who , because their desires and choices are deter- mined , are the victims not the agents of misfortune . This plea is sometimes forensically very effective ...
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... responsibility , while children , insofar as they possess reason in a partially developed form , can be held responsible ( i.e. , can be required to take responsibility ) to a corresponding degree .. Every man who possesses both free ...
... responsibility , while children , insofar as they possess reason in a partially developed form , can be held responsible ( i.e. , can be required to take responsibility ) to a corresponding degree .. Every man who possesses both free ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
Copyright | |
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