Titlebook: A Miscellany of Modern Musings; Reflections from Mod Peter Chong-Beng Gan Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under

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al concerns of human life.Includes accessible ideas and argu.The book starts off by giving a quick overview of the main phases within the history of philosophy in the Western tradition. It then homes in on the “modern” phase and proceeds to select key thinkers that represent that slice from the rich

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Blaise Pascal,thout extension and without limits, we know neither the existence nor the nature of God. This scepticism is also due to the immense difference between us and God. I attempt to explicate “Pascal’s wager” and examine the defects of this argument within the frame of a philosophy of religion.

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Book 2024“modern” phase and proceeds to select key thinkers that represent that slice from the rich intellectual heritage of the West. The main chapters have these thinkers’ names as heading. The work is meant to be expository and discursive, suited to introduce the neophyte in philosophy to some of the big

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-05932-5 of the philosophical tradition in the Western world. The four main divisions in this tradition are ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary. We shall explore the main differences and commonalities between them. It is important to note that there are existing disagreements over the number and form the divisions should take.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-05932-5ossible that we arrive at a notion that there is no physical world out there and that I may not have a body and sense faculties. After unravelling Descartes’s “Cogito ergo sum”, objections to the Cartesian substantive “I” will be assessed.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20978-0Norris’s subscription to “occasionalism” leads him to contend that God is the efficient cause of all our sensations, including pleasure. God alone does us good; and therefore, God alone deserves our love. Finally, I explore Astell and Norris’s discussion concerning pain and its origin.

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