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David Hume on Causation and Rational Belief

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

Moral Judgment, Sentiment, and Reason According to David Hume

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

Teleology and Proving God's Existence Through Reason

thought and action are connected, bringing to mind the view of science and how it demonstrated the same evidence. Character...

Attack on Personal Identity by David Hume and Karl Popper's Response

In five pages Hume's attack on the self or personal identity is discussed as represented in A Treatise of Human Nature and also co...

Compatibilism and David Hume

In seven pages this paper considers Hume's compatibilism philosophy and offers criticisms to examine how his position could be mod...

Analysis of God's Existence

In eight pages this research paper considers philosophical perspectives regarding God's existence and includes David Hume's opposi...

Miracles and David Hume

In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...

Philospher David Hume

In five pages David Hume's contention that there is no God is countered by an opposing argument. Two sources are cited in the bib...

Cause and Effect Attacks of David Hume

In eight pages Hume's counter philosophical arguments to causality are examined with supporting evidence offered by Immanuel Kant ...

Cause and Effect Attacked by David Hume II

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

Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

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

Analysis of the Pluralism Philosophy

In twelve pages this research paper examines the evolution of pluralism in a consideration of such philosophies as David Hume's em...

Ethical Theories of David Hume

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...

'Obligation of Promises' According to David Hume

It is here that the concept of utility arises. Hume asserts that qualities are valued either for their agreeableness, either to t...

Good Taste and Art According to David Hume

In eleven pages this report discusses how Hume's skeptical views shaped his perceptions regarding good taste and art with the writ...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

David Hume

controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...

The Philosophies of David Hume and Rene Descartes Applied to the Abortion Issue

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

Critical Essay on Hume's View of Contracts

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...

Reason According to Descartes and Hume

This research report looks at Hume and Descartes and their ideas about reason. It is claimed that Hume minimized the use of reason...

Evil, God, and David Hume

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

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

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

'On the Standard of Taste' by David Hume

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

God's Existence Cosmological Argument

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

Critique of Llewelyn and Hume Article on How Patients Perceive Therapy

style to be clear and unbiased. These were then categories by qualified psychologies into one of three groups, behavioural therapy...

Ideas According to David Hume

be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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

Hume, Kant, and Descartes' Teleological, Ontological, and Cosmological Arguments and God's Existence Criticisms

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

'On the Immortality of the Soul' by David Hume

the immortality of the soul. The main points are as follows. First of all, Hume points out that the soul is said to be immaterial,...

Philosopher David Hume's Ideologies

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...