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A Brief History of the Paradox : Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind.
Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the ancient Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and into the twentieth century. When Augustine asked what God was doing before He made the world, he was told: "&...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cary :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the ancient Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and into the twentieth century. When Augustine asked what God was doing before He made the world, he was told: ""Preparing hell for people who ask questions like that."" A Brief History of the Paradox takes a close look at ""questions like that"" and the philosophers who have asked them, beginning with the folk riddles that inspired Anaximander to erect the first metaphysical system and ending with such thinkers as. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (413 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780199728572 0199728577 9780195179866 0195179862 9780190289317 0190289317 |