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Skeptical Human Understanding of David Hume

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

Causation and David Hume

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

Twenty First Century Transcendentalism

to be called "transcendentalism" (5). The individuals who wrote about this faculty referred to it by different names -- e.g., "sp...

21st Century and Henry David Thoreau

States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...

Nature of Causation According to David Hume

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Race Concept and its History

that their individual styles of approach are based in part upon significantly different gender perspectives. Like Merchant (1989)...

Detailed Analysis of Plato's Cave Allegory

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

Industrialization Problems and Coping Strategies

In seven pages this paper considers how theorists of the nineteenth century proposed to cope with industrialization problems and i...

Three Views of the Slave Trade in Africa

and time period under discussion. Eric Williams Williams begins his argument by pointing out that "unfree labor" in the New Worl...

Madame Butterfly and Othello, Themes Compared

Masks and weaknesses are two themes permeating Othello by William Shakespeare and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang. This paper co...

Silent Lipreading and Activating the Auditory Cortex

In a paper consisting of two and a half pages the article 'Activation of the Auditory Cortex During Silent Lipreading' written by ...

2 Articles on Pesticides Analyzed

In five pages David Weir and Constance Matthiessen's 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken' and William R. Furtick's 'Uncontrolled Pests or...

Slave Cultures and Gerald W. Mullin's Flight and Rebellion

In five pages this paper discusses the views expressed in Mullin's book and compares them with those featured in works by David Wa...

Global Economy and Racial Structure

political arena. Virginia was an important state that provided many political figures, but most southern states were largely marg...

Management of Avid Technology

growth stages, with a new way of satisfying customer demands. The main strength here has to be seen as the technical knowledge tha...

God's Existence and the Design Argument

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

American Literature's Romantic Movement

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

David Mamet, Sam Shepard, and the Dramatic Idiom

plight of small-time con-men, dubious real estate salesmen and other marginal types, explore a desperate, obsessed landscape that ...

First 3 Chapters of David A. Karp and William C. Yoels' Sociology in Everyday Life

presents a rationale for the study of everyday behavior. The notion that clear cultural expectations underlie daily activity is il...

Caravaggio, Blake, and Goya

the face of David is not clearly seen, only seen from the profile, though Goliaths is clear and clearly severed. There is no real ...

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls by Christopher Durang

Durang's satire of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is considered in this report of five pages in which the author's succes...

Star Wars by John Williams

This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...

'The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality' by Bernard Williams

almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...

Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

Nonviolent Philosophies of Cesar Chavez, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau

a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs" (Thoreau 188)....

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...

David Hume's 'Miraculous' Philosophy

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Comparing Platonism and Atomism

concerning change in the world. Although the methods of reasoning they used were not those of the modern scientific method, it is ...