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In five pages Hume's views on morality are discussed in terms of their origins and arguments against limiting self serving actions...
In five pages material substance concepts are considered in this contrasting and comparison of three philosophical perspectives wi...
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 six pages this paper denotes similarities and differences in the philosophies of Plato and Hume regarding God, morality, and hu...
In nine pages this research paper examines Hume's philosophical conclusions regarding moral judgments and the roles sentiment and ...
men for the society in which they develop. Youngs concepts of justice and mans role in society appear to challenge those prese...
In seven pages this paper considers Hume's compatibilism philosophy and offers criticisms to examine how his position could be mod...
In five pages this essay discusses Hume's opposition to the a posteriori argument regarding the divine 'Designer' of the cosmos. ...
with whatever is remote and extraordinary; and running without control into the most distant parts of space and time in order to a...
In five pages Hume's views on free will and determinism are examined within the context of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandi...
In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...
In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...
of participating in Forms consists (as he holds in the Phaedo) in taking the Forms apart, with the result that nothing remains: 1)...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...
made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...
his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...
In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...
One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...
present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
the immortality of the soul. The main points are as follows. First of all, Hume points out that the soul is said to be immaterial,...
be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...
long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...
only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...
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...
even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...
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...