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Theres no justice in this world. The poor get cheated and the rich get off." He states that this proves God does not exist. Bar...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

life. Though cultural and religious differences are often supported as a means of directing public opinion towards the belief t...

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...

In effect it was assumed that where the scenario for adverse possession arouse the title owner had abandoned or dispossessed the l...

nation state to toot its own horn. Currency creates character and is similar to creating a flag or particular customs or tradition...

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

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...

to an invalid who is totally dependent on her parents for her care. The tragedy here, as is true in many respects in the cross-cu...

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

happens is that while gang injunctions prohibit gang-banging activities like vandalism, graffiti, and possessing weapons, the inj...

distract road users may further decrease the accident rates on roads. In understanding the interaction the environmental influen...

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

or continual acceptance of the status quo (Berger and Luckmann, 1967). In many ways the artificial reality caused by this phenomen...

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...

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...