God, the Devil and the Perfect Pizza: Ten Philosophical Questions

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Broadview Press, 31 mag 1995 - 208 pagine
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Can God’s existence be proven by logic? Are computers smart enough to follow rules—or to cheat? What is an out-of-body experience? How can tables be solid when physicists say they’re made of subatomic particles that are only probability functions? Does science depend on trust? What is conscience? Does it come from God? From religious teaching? Social training? Is it rational to pursue your own self-interest? Can we all survive if we do this?

In this collection of stories and dialogues Trudy Govier shows how these old and new philosophical questions arise, and offers imaginative and striking depictions of some of the theories and arguments they have inspired.

 

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Philosophy book without the headaches: This philosophy book is excellent if you are interested in the subject but feels intimidated by the subject. Govier breaks down several classic philosophy ... Leggi recensione completa

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God, the Devil and the Perfect Pizza: Ten Philosophical Questions
Trudy Govier
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God, the Devil and the Perfect Pizza: Ten Philosophical Questions
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God, the Devil and the Perfect Pizza: Ten Philosophical Questions
Trudy Govier
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Pagina 192 - But clearly that than which a greater cannot be thought cannot exist in the understanding alone. For if it is actually in the understanding alone, it can be thought of as existing also in reality, and this is greater. Therefore, if that than which a greater cannot be thought is in the understanding alone, this same thing than which a greater cannot be thought is that than which a greater can be thought.‎
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Pagina 150 - Rule — the idea of all the world's great religious faiths that you should do unto others what you would have them do unto you — is what the jioor countries expected to have applied to them when they got to Washington.‎
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Pagina 192 - So if that than which a greater cannot be thought exists only in the understanding, then that than which a greater cannot be thought is that than which a greater can be thought. But that is clearly impossible. Therefore, there is no doubt that something than which a greater cannot be thought exists both in the understanding and in reality.‎
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Pagina 71 - hecatombs of broken hearts," etc. It is said that Pythagoras, who, we know, would never take life, offered up 100 oxen to the gods when he discovered that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.‎
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Pagina 68 - The Square Root of a number is a number which multiplied by itself will produce the given number.‎
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Pagina 192 - Fairweather; printed in P. Edwards and A. Pap, A Modern Introduction To Philosophy; p.‎
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Informazioni sull'autore (1995)

Trudy Govier is the author of three other philosophical books, including A Practical Study of Argument (Wadsworth).

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TitoloGod, the Devil and the Perfect Pizza: Ten Philosophical Questions
AutoreTrudy Govier
Edizioneillustrata, ristampa
EditoreBroadview Press, 1995
ISBN0921149506, 9780921149507
Lunghezza208 pagine
  
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