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In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...
In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...
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...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
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...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...
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...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
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...
In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...
In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...
Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...
that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...
In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...
In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...
In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...
In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...
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...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...