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In five pages this paper examines equality and liberty and the tensions that arose during the late eighteenth century and early ni...

In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...

In five pages this paper examines the US independence from Great Britain in a consideration of liberty's meaning and the cost of a...

In five pages this essay discusses Hume's opposition to the a posteriori argument regarding the divine 'Designer' of the cosmos. ...

of participating in Forms consists (as he holds in the Phaedo) in taking the Forms apart, with the result that nothing remains: 1)...

with whatever is remote and extraordinary; and running without control into the most distant parts of space and time in order to a...

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

property") and the prohibition of any branch of the U.S. government to conduct unlawful search and seizure investigations against ...

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...

This paper written in a letter style consists of five pages and examines the contention that David Hum was an atheist and then con...

of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others" (Mill PG). Thus,...

keep order and lock up criminals and investigate injustices, but it is not governments job to tell the people how to live their li...

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the meanings of liberty and freedom presented in James Madison's Federalist Paper and...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these philosophers' perspectives on liberty based upon Rousseau's First and Second...

In five pages this paper examines how the principles outlined in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan define what should be regarded as true l...

In five pages compatible economic theory, political ideology, and concepts of liberty are examined within the context of Liberalis...

In five pages this paper discusses the daily usefulness of prayer in an overview that includes such topics as divine planning and ...

of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

Paine disagreed and argued that all governments are bad and that only society is good but even he conceded that "governments are n...

what the concept of rights truly meant to the populace as a whole, with his general consensus reflecting the respect for and appre...

does not have to reside in the United States. They do so by choice and so, what is a concern is that the people obey the law while...

as long as there are no restrictions that keep us from doing so. We are, in other words, only as free as our environment and reali...