Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... minds of our century . The erudite anthropologist says unabashedly of the road to reason : " For my part , I am absolutely ... mind of man . The world is meaningful ; and , by virtue of his intellect and free will , man has an important ...
... minds of our century . The erudite anthropologist says unabashedly of the road to reason : " For my part , I am absolutely ... mind of man . The world is meaningful ; and , by virtue of his intellect and free will , man has an important ...
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... mind that , for all their anti - literary tirades , most of them were not only omnivorous readers but built their professions upon it . Oswald Spengler in The Decline of the West scathingly denounced an era of wide reading as an age of ...
... mind that , for all their anti - literary tirades , most of them were not only omnivorous readers but built their professions upon it . Oswald Spengler in The Decline of the West scathingly denounced an era of wide reading as an age of ...
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... mind being greater than the master - mind . There is an instinct , if rarely articulated , which demonstrates not just a wish , but a need , for developing according to the potentials too often locked for all in preliminary terrestrial ...
... mind being greater than the master - mind . There is an instinct , if rarely articulated , which demonstrates not just a wish , but a need , for developing according to the potentials too often locked for all in preliminary terrestrial ...
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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