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One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...

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

philosophy and political theory has been incalculable. Substance In the "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," Locke carefully ...

dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depe...

distinctive patterns, which include "a penchant for the obscure and improbable... accepting arguments pointing toward a conspiracy...

in front of me and a keyboard at my fingers. Is the movement of my fingers real as I type these words? The possibility that perh...

the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...

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

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

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

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...

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

Durkheim believed that although society had come a long way in its progression, there was still a great deal of room for improveme...

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

In seven pages this paper examines the 3 Hylas and Philonous dialogues and what they reveal about immaterialism and the philosophi...

a moral fashion, it ceases to function in the proper manner and ceases to exert genuine authority over the individual. According ...

in their business. On the other side are those who want totalitarian rule, where the people have little say in what goes on. Betwe...

In five pages this report examines the permissibility of social inequality according to philosophers Jean Jacques Rousseau and Joh...

In four page this paper examines Berkeley's philosophical concept as represented in his text Treatise Concerning the Principles of...

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the government is justified in legally regulating marijuana use according to th...

In five pages this report discusses the 'blank slate' of the human mind according to John Locke and also considers education's rol...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Immanuel Kant and John Locke on the concept of government as represen...

the government have the right to act? By what measure can one say that an existing government is a rightful one? Hobbess...

rights of another individual. In this way, then, even if one chooses badly, they have not been damaged to the point that they have...

(Locke: The Origin of Ideas, 2003). Locke, unlike many of his peers, denied that certain knowledge was innate for human...

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...

the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which indivi...

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 ...

In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...