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made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...

neighbors. Such things do happen. When life happens, it is often unique and has little reference to the past. Yet, in examining t...

In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...

In six pages this paper denotes similarities and differences in the philosophies of Plato and Hume regarding God, morality, and hu...

men for the society in which they develop. Youngs concepts of justice and mans role in society appear to challenge those prese...

In eight pages Hume's counter philosophical arguments to causality are examined with supporting evidence offered by Immanuel Kant ...

In eight pages Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding serves as a springboard to a discussion regarding the Scottish philos...

In five pages Hume's views on morality are discussed in terms of their origins and arguments against limiting self serving actions...

In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

In five pages material substance concepts are considered in this contrasting and comparison of three philosophical perspectives wi...

In nine pages this research paper examines Hume's philosophical conclusions regarding moral judgments and the roles sentiment and ...

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

style to be clear and unbiased. These were then categories by qualified psychologies into one of three groups, behavioural therapy...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...

than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...

In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

In eleven pages this report discusses how Hume's skeptical views shaped his perceptions regarding good taste and art with the writ...

It is here that the concept of utility arises. Hume asserts that qualities are valued either for their agreeableness, either to t...

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...