The Study of PhilosophyCollegiate Press, 1987 - 340 pages |
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... evil comes about . In asking the question we were not asking for the causes of evil ; we were asking the more general and basic question of why should there be evil in the world at all . It is in this respect that philosophy differs ...
... evil comes about . In asking the question we were not asking for the causes of evil ; we were asking the more general and basic question of why should there be evil in the world at all . It is in this respect that philosophy differs ...
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... evil . As in the case just noted , here too we find ourselves ( those of us , at least , who are of a religious bent of mind ) wanting to take two positions that seem to contradict one another . No one has expressed the problem more suc ...
... evil . As in the case just noted , here too we find ourselves ( those of us , at least , who are of a religious bent of mind ) wanting to take two positions that seem to contradict one another . No one has expressed the problem more suc ...
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... evil in the scheme of things does not annul the evil , and although we might come to see God's wisdom in having arranged things the way He had , where- we will still want to know - was His mercy ? Having come to that pass in the debate ...
... evil in the scheme of things does not annul the evil , and although we might come to see God's wisdom in having arranged things the way He had , where- we will still want to know - was His mercy ? Having come to that pass in the debate ...
Contents
It began here | 11 |
And so I go about the world | 29 |
Aristotle and the art of thinking | 67 |
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