YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Philosophical Look at David Hume and Plato
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Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...
In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...
able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...
of participating in Forms consists (as he holds in the Phaedo) in taking the Forms apart, with the result that nothing remains: 1)...
or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
In five pages this paper examines the philosophical questions resulting from the dialogue between Meno and Socrates as presented i...
In six pages this paper examines Plato's Gorgias which describes a philosophical dialogue between the title character and Socrates...
Plato's Euthyphro is employed in this paper consisting of eight pages in order to explore the roots of godly piety and this tutori...
In five pages this report discusses Plato's dialogues in terms of how Socrates regarded his philosophical role and how he was pres...
This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...
In six pages this paper compares contemporary religious views with Plato's philosophical concepts with God's existence, morality, ...
role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....
In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...
In six pages this paper discusses the philosophical distinctions Socrates made between these two concepts as presented in Plato's ...
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
still perhaps not arriving at solid answers when his friend tells him he has to leave. Socrates tells him, "Alas! my companion, an...
of Nature. He has also noted that while the 20th century has involved a great deal of specialization, the 21st century will be a ...
In five pages both philosophical arguments regarding moral judgment are compared along with a consideration of why each would disa...
In six pages this paper discusses how Hume critiques man's knowledge regarding causal relationships which is based on the philosop...
In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...
Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...
view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...
student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...