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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... universe - the cosmos - as clues to God's existence , and so they are called cosmological arguments . God , he tells us , is necessary to account for motion , causality , contingency , gradation , and design in nature . In his second of ...
... universe - the cosmos - as clues to God's existence , and so they are called cosmological arguments . God , he tells us , is necessary to account for motion , causality , contingency , gradation , and design in nature . In his second of ...
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... universe ? And if thought , as we may well suppose , be confined merely to this narrow corner , and has even there so limited a sphere of action ; with what propriety can we assign it for the original cause of all things ? The narrow ...
... universe ? And if thought , as we may well suppose , be confined merely to this narrow corner , and has even there so limited a sphere of action ; with what propriety can we assign it for the original cause of all things ? The narrow ...
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... universe of that friend of our infancy , the hero of the fable The Atheist and the Acorn , — Fool ! had that bough a pumpkin bore , Thy whimsies would have worked no more , etc. Even from the point of view of our own ends , we should ...
... universe of that friend of our infancy , the hero of the fable The Atheist and the Acorn , — Fool ! had that bough a pumpkin bore , Thy whimsies would have worked no more , etc. Even from the point of view of our own ends , we should ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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