The Story of Western PhilosophyThis book was born of the paperback boom, and it is meant as an aid in the interpretation of the history of Western philosophy. It is designed especially for use in a course in the history of philosophy, but I hope that it may also prove useful for other purposes, such as an historical introduction to philosophy or a comprehensive review of the history of philosophy or just as a help to the general reader trying to make some sense out of the history of Western philosophy.-Preface. |
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... possible and the actual and the necessary . The possible and the necessary are , for Leibniz , based solely on the law of noncontra- diction : a thing is possible if and only if it is not self - contradic- tory , and a thing is ...
... possible and the actual and the necessary . The possible and the necessary are , for Leibniz , based solely on the law of noncontra- diction : a thing is possible if and only if it is not self - contradic- tory , and a thing is ...
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... possible worlds , how ter- rible the others must be ! This guarantee that the goodness and omnipotence of God will produce the best of all possible worlds raises the question whether any other world than this one is really possible ...
... possible worlds , how ter- rible the others must be ! This guarantee that the goodness and omnipotence of God will produce the best of all possible worlds raises the question whether any other world than this one is really possible ...
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... possible ? " How can propositions possibly be both uni- versally and necessarily true ( a priori ) and also about experi- enced objects , matters of fact , or real existence ( synthetic ) ? Note that Kant assumes that they are possible ...
... possible ? " How can propositions possibly be both uni- versally and necessarily true ( a priori ) and also about experi- enced objects , matters of fact , or real existence ( synthetic ) ? Note that Kant assumes that they are possible ...
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The Cosmological Philosophers | 13 |
The Anthropological Philosophers | 34 |
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