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Here I wish chiefly to make some disclaimers and enter a caveat or two . First , the book makes no pretense at detailed scholarship . Its function is pedagogical . We felt that the important task of setting out the diverse moralities ...
Here I wish chiefly to make some disclaimers and enter a caveat or two . First , the book makes no pretense at detailed scholarship . Its function is pedagogical . We felt that the important task of setting out the diverse moralities ...
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... would on reflection wish to adopt . I refer to that use which consists of denying the merits - not the possibility - of any process which might be called defending religious belief , justifying it , or giving good grounds for it .
... would on reflection wish to adopt . I refer to that use which consists of denying the merits - not the possibility - of any process which might be called defending religious belief , justifying it , or giving good grounds for it .
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I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may , I fear , appear wildly paradoxical and subversive . The doctrine in question is this : that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ...
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may , I fear , appear wildly paradoxical and subversive . The doctrine in question is this : that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ...
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Contents
FOREWORD by the Reverend Canon Ronald H Preston | 8 |
A Selfobeying | 27 |
B Otherobeying | 37 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Ideals: A Guide to Moral and Metaphysical Outlooks |
| Author | John Wilson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Morehouse-Barlow Company, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0819211729, 9780819211729 |
| Length | 95 pages |
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