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Summary: Excellent collection
Review: I am an undergraduate, and I have to say, a found this to be an excellent collection of essays. It covers theism and atheism, and the breadth of philosophers it covers is almost overwhelming. It has works from Plato, Kierkegaard and more recent philosophers such as Mackie.
I did think that Pojman's comments and essays were well done and very useful, both for study and otherwise. From a student who is genuinely concerned with the question of religeon, I would like to thank Pojman for this book.
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Summary: A VERY WELL BALANCED ANTHOLOGY
Review: Pojman covers all the essential arguments from both theist and atheists. He covers the traditional arguments in great detail, the argument from religious experience, the problem of evil, the attributes of God, miracles and revelation, death and immorality, faith and reason, and religion and ethics. Essays are used from all the great minds in the history of philosophy - Aquinas, Anselm, Augustine, Plato, Hume, Kant, Plantinga, Leibniz, Hick, Swineburne, Mackie, Russell, Flew, Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, Pascal, etc. If you are a serious student of the Philosophy of Religion then you should NOT be without this volume. It would be a great addition to anyones philosophical collection.
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Summary: I liked everything but Pojman
Review: This IS a wonderful anthology...but for the amount of money you would pay for it in hardbound edition, it would probably be a better investment to find another anthology or locate volumes on philosophers separately. Pojman does a masterful job selecting essays for each section and summarizing their arguments, but his own arguments which are interspersed throughout the anthology do little more than paraphrase arguments which have already been given. My advice: get a couple of collections of works by John Hick, Alvin Plantinga, and William Rowe, as well as a collection of essays by Augustine and Aquinas, and go it on your own...or seek out a more reasonably priced anthology. This one is better suited for a college student as an alternative to a pricey bundle of books. A wonderful introduction to the field of philosophy of religion in the end, however.
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