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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...
In five pages this paper discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...
This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...
In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...
In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...
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 paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...
In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...
In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...
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 any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
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...
hire on other farms (The History Place, 1996). The same year his sister died, he and a friend, Allen Gentry took a flatboat of pr...
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...
(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...
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...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...