YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Human Understanding According to David Hume
Essays 181 - 210
In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...
In six pages this paper denotes similarities and differences in the philosophies of Plato and Hume regarding God, morality, and hu...
In eight pages Hume's counter philosophical arguments to causality are examined with supporting evidence offered by Immanuel Kant ...
In five pages Hume's views on morality are discussed in terms of their origins and arguments against limiting self serving actions...
In nine pages this paper discusses how a philosophy class would teach phenomenology and existentialist theories by answering quest...
In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...
men for the society in which they develop. Youngs concepts of justice and mans role in society appear to challenge those prese...
made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...
In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...
present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...
only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...
pivoting around issues concerning one Petersons key areas, that is, the politics of development. A principal point of DeLeons anal...
a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...
would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...
The writer argues that in Fahrenheit 451, the burning of the books symbolizes the end of civilization. The writer uses the perspec...
of making choices through free will despite the perpetual attempt to define their existence as being driven by determinism. ...
power that Scheper-Hughes and the people of Ballybran have in common, as well as how they share these kinds of power, it will be i...
the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
ever voted, by a tenth part of those who were bound to pay obedience to it " (Hume PG). One can take this notion a step further an...
one philosopher might say that it is always wrong to kill other people, or one might may qualify that idea by saying that it is al...
to change moral systems developed before him with complicity in an illegitimate process of reasoning" (p.6). Essentially, he is as...
This is a 5 page critical review that criticizes the nation's system of juvenile justice and its many shortfalls, emphasizing the ...
In 5 pages this paper argues that the so-called Scottish Enlightenment was neither Scottish nor particularly enlightened with Ferg...
In five pages human perception and the theories connected with it are examined and then the perception theories of this trio of ph...
the importance of direct experience in the formulation of knowledge, is at the core of Humes overarching skepticism, which makes a...
style to be clear and unbiased. These were then categories by qualified psychologies into one of three groups, behavioural therapy...
neighbors. Such things do happen. When life happens, it is often unique and has little reference to the past. Yet, in examining t...
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...
it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...