Brief History of the Paradox Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind

Name: Brief History of the Paradox Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
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ISBN: 9780195179866

ISBN-10: 0195179862

ISBN-13: 9780195179866

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Authors: Roy Sorensen

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Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible.Now 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…

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List price: $21.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.01" wide x 5.04" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English