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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...

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

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 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...

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...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

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...

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

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...

In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...

In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...

Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...