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In five pages this paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...

In five pages this report examines the assertion that there is a separation of the body and soul and that each event is attributed...

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...

In three pages this report discusses the utilitarian philosophy of David Hume in a consideration of the role of sympathy in 'Why U...

This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

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...

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...

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 ...

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

speech. "These in the flame with ceaseless goals deplore/The ambush of the horse, that opend wide/A portal for the goodly seed to ...

humorous realities. For example, we have the Great Belcher, whose words are sometimes nothing more than a burp. This is humorous, ...

will find the hope that America said it could offer, but also the realities that make a capitalistic society oppressive and degrad...

sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...

Such is the case for "America Dreams..through the decades", a web site developed by the Library of Congress. The "America D...