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Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

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

Thomas Aquinas and David Hume on Religious Morality

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

Reality Struggles of Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, and David Hume

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

God According to David Hume

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

The Philosophies of David Hume and Rene Descartes Applied to the Abortion Issue

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

Knowledge Analysis by David Hume

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

Love According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

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

Ethical Theories of David Hume

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...

Truth According to David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Aristotle

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

Exercise and Adverse Side Effects

often resort to phenomenal, and sometimes dangerous, efforts to increase their athletic ability and physical prowess. Steroids ar...

The Effects of the World Trade Center Attacks on Wall Street

Those estimates were off by a margin of 13 billion (Updegrave, 2001). However, Updegrave goes on to reassure, stating that a sect...

Airline Industry and Terrorist Attack Effects

Paul H. ONeill recently summed up: "We have a new kind of uncertainty to deal...

Critical Essay on Hume's View of Contracts

ever voted, by a tenth part of those who were bound to pay obedience to it " (Hume PG). One can take this notion a step further an...

Tourism Industry and the Impact of 911

report released October 25 (Lubetkin, 2002). And yet, the way the airline industry has rallied in the face of this disaster has ...

The Impact of the 911 Attacks on Airline Marketing

played an integral role in maintaining customer return long after the marketing tactics have been utilized. Indeed, getting the p...

Economic Impact of Military Spending

point. When the military is thriving it is some of the best boom times for the United States economy. This has been proven many ...

Von Clausewitz and Galula, Views on War

may be social or economic, but the basic formula for revolutionary action remains the same. Von Clausewitz, in his nineteenth ce...

Tension in Hwang's "Trying to Find Chinatown"

roots, it a good idea to first be Asian?" (Hwang 289). Benjamin then explains that he was adopted by Chinese-American parents at b...

First Responders to Terrorist Attacks

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at first responders to terrorist attacks. The effects of traps and toxic environments ...

Reason According to Descartes and Hume

This research report looks at Hume and Descartes and their ideas about reason. It is claimed that Hume minimized the use of reason...

Insurance Industry and Impact of 911 Attacks

brokers lost 200 employees when the towers went down. Marsh & McLennan, another large insurance brokerage lost 300 employees, incl...

Terrorist Attack on the United States and Its Effects

during the third week of September; that was just barely two weeks after the attack. It was the highest jump in unemployment claim...

Hypocritical Title of the 'Scottish Enlightenment'

In 5 pages this paper argues that the so-called Scottish Enlightenment was neither Scottish nor particularly enlightened with Ferg...

Edward Humes' 'No Matter How Loud I Shout : A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court'

This is a 5 page critical review that criticizes the nation's system of juvenile justice and its many shortfalls, emphasizing the ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy and Broadcast Journalist Edward R. Murrow

In nine pages the effects of Murrow's attacks against the 'Red' hunting Senator for Wisconsin that led to his downfall are examine...

A Global Perspective on Biological Weapons

The writer considers the potential threat of biological weapons in the global community. The paper describes the effect of such we...

Hume's Skepticism - An Overview

the importance of direct experience in the formulation of knowledge, is at the core of Humes overarching skepticism, which makes a...

Is Cannibalism Ever Justified?

one philosopher might say that it is always wrong to kill other people, or one might may qualify that idea by saying that it is al...

Hume's Is-Ought Problem

to change moral systems developed before him with complicity in an illegitimate process of reasoning" (p.6). Essentially, he is as...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...