thoughts about the human enigma Williams, Jay G. Additional Author mixed material bibliography University Press of America c1990 monographic en English

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vii, 219 p. : 1 ill. ; 22 cm. hrough a series of 144 short texts on twelve key subjects, this text introduces the reader to some of the central perplexities of human life. Along with those texts written by the author himself are selections from such sources as Genesis and Lao Tzu, Plato and the Upanishads, Hume and Wittgenstein, Augustine and Ecclesiastes, to name but a few. Topics range from the nature of language to pleasure and pain to life after death. Most of the classical questions of the philosophy of religion are introduced. Contents: The Sphinx; Words; Good and Evil; Time; The Self; Pleasure and Pain; That None Greater Than Which can be Conceived; Knowing and Not Knowing; Prescription; Transformation; The Good Life; and Life After Death. Human beings 1280819178861(alk.pap Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 128 Wil r E94018308 Textbook 128 Wil r 728 1990-05-15 00:00:00 2024-08-29 16:38:03 machine generated