Without Answers Vol 8

188 Pages·2003·6.582 MB·English

by  Rush Rhees

STUDIES IN ETHICS AND THE
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
General Editor: D. Z. Phillips
STUDIES IN ETHICS AND THE
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
General Editor: D. Z. Phillips
VOLUME I
The Problem of Evil
by M. B. Ahern
VOLUMEII
Moral Reasoning
by R. W. Beardsmore
VOLUMEIII
Theology and Intelligibility
by Michael Durrant
VOLUME IV
Humanism and Ideology
by James R. Flynn
VOLUME V
The Five Ways:
St. Thomas Aquinas' Proofs of God's Existence
by Anthony Kenny
VOLUME VI
Moral Practices
by D. Z. Phillips and H. O. Mounce
VOLUME VII
God and Timelessness
by Nelson Pike
VOLUME VIII
Without Answers
by Rush Rhees
VOLUME IX
Morality and Purpose
by J. L. Stocks
STUDIES IN ETHICS
AND THE PHILOSOPHY
OF RELIGION
VOLUME VIII
Without Answers
By Rush Rhees
First published 1969 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
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STUDIES IN ETHICS AND THE
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
The Series is meant to provide an opportunity for philosophical
discussions of a limited length which pursue in some detail specific
topics in ethics or the philosophy of religion, or topics which belong to
both fields. For the most part, the Series will present work by contem
porary philosophers. The contributors, while not representing any single
philosophical school, will be in sympathy with recent developments
in philosophy. Occasionally, however, unpublished material by earlier
philosophers, or works of importance which are now out of print, or not
easily accessible, will appear in the Series.
D. Z. PHILLIPS
Without Answers
by
RUSH RHEES
London
ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL
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Editorial Note
I have gathered these papers with the perrmsslOn of
Rush Rhees. They have been gathered from two sources:
first, published and unpublished papers; and second,
letters written to colleagues, students and friends on
various occasions. There may well be letters by Rush
Rhees which are just as important as those'in this volume.
I have made my selection from those I happened to know
about. It does not follow that Rush Rhees himself would
have selected the papers and letters I have chosen, or
that he would have ordered them as I have done.
The first two papers are based on talks to first year
students not reading philosophy. Numbers 3-5 are the
only papers in the collection to be published previously.
Numbers 3 and 4 were first published as a critical notice
and article respectively in Mind, Vol. LVI, r 947. We
are grateful to the Editor for permission to use the
material here. Number 5 was first published in Proceedings
of the Aristotelian Society, Supp. Vol. XXIII, 1949. We
are grateful to the Editor for permission to use the material
here. Numbers 6 and 14 are hitherto unpublished papers.
With the exception of paper 14, numbers 7-17 are taken
from letters written to various people between 1954 and
1966. Of these, numbers 7, 9 and 16 were written as
notes on discussions in the Philosophical Society at the
University College of Swansea. I am responsible for the