Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... doubt . But knowledge begins with faith in the human capacity to know , even through an " absurd " leap , trustfully , into the enveloping dark . Certitude , or the possibility of limited certitude of the few essentials , must always be ...
... doubt . But knowledge begins with faith in the human capacity to know , even through an " absurd " leap , trustfully , into the enveloping dark . Certitude , or the possibility of limited certitude of the few essentials , must always be ...
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... doubt to act , or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a God , or Beast ; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer ; Born but to die , and reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance , his reason such , Whether he thinks too little , or too much ...
... doubt to act , or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a God , or Beast ; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer ; Born but to die , and reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance , his reason such , Whether he thinks too little , or too much ...
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... doubt that he is a man with a cause . He may overstate his case in drawing parallels between the practice of psychiatry in the U.S.A. and the " health sanatoria " of the U.S.S.R. , where Sakharovs are sent for cures . But there is no doubt ...
... doubt that he is a man with a cause . He may overstate his case in drawing parallels between the practice of psychiatry in the U.S.A. and the " health sanatoria " of the U.S.S.R. , where Sakharovs are sent for cures . But there is no doubt ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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