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In five pages Hume's views on morality are discussed in terms of their origins and arguments against limiting self serving actions...

In five pages both philosophical arguments regarding moral judgment are compared along with a consideration of why each would disa...

than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

In eight pages Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding serves as a springboard to a discussion regarding the Scottish philos...

In nine pages this research paper examines Hume's philosophical conclusions regarding moral judgments and the roles sentiment and ...

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

may volunteer to go door to door to collect money for charity. Each makes use of leisure time. Yet, one might attach the actions o...

able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...

In six pages this research paper considers An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in an analysis of Locke's representation of how...

In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...

have been the fact that the individual has MS or CP or some other disease. Another reason might have been that they simply were no...

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...

In five pages Hume's views on free will and determinism are examined within the context of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandi...

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

In five pages David Hume's definition of morality as a sympathy concept is applied to his contention that moral views do not stem ...

In six pages Scottish philosopher David Hume's skepticism concerning the existence of miracles is discussed which although interes...

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

any attempt to model understanding of God on the basis of a study of humanity is simply untenable. What is the soul of man? A mixt...

or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...

In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...

In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of David Hume and Thomas Aquinas regarding religion and ultimate...

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

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

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...

further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...