YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the Ideas of Hume and Ayer
Essays 241 - 270
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...
this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...
long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...
at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...
they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...
story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...
true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...
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