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In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

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...

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...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

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...

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

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

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...

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...

present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...

long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...