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In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...

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

In five pages this paper discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...

In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...

In three pages this report discusses the utilitarian philosophy of David Hume in a consideration of the role of sympathy in 'Why U...

This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...

In five pages this report examines the assertion that there is a separation of the body and soul and that each event is attributed...

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

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...

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...

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

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 ...

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...

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

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

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...

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 ...

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

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

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

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...