Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... Universe , p . 134 ) . I confess to a preference for this type of God rather than the one that is conceived after the analogy of big business ; but that , no doubt , is because I prefer thinking to doing . This suggests a treatise ...
... Universe , p . 134 ) . I confess to a preference for this type of God rather than the one that is conceived after the analogy of big business ; but that , no doubt , is because I prefer thinking to doing . This suggests a treatise ...
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... universe upon which this attitude rests . And , as for his theory , the mystic has not left us wholly in the dark about that . In the first place , he insists that he finds reality not merely prospectively good , but good now . And is ...
... universe upon which this attitude rests . And , as for his theory , the mystic has not left us wholly in the dark about that . In the first place , he insists that he finds reality not merely prospectively good , but good now . And is ...
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... universe any unity of plan or purpose , or is it a fortuitous concourse of atoms ? Is consciousness a permanent part of the universe , giving hope of indefinite growth in wisdom , or is it a transitory accident on a small planet on ...
... universe any unity of plan or purpose , or is it a fortuitous concourse of atoms ? Is consciousness a permanent part of the universe , giving hope of indefinite growth in wisdom , or is it a transitory accident on a small planet on ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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