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Essays 151 - 180
In eight pages Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding serves as a springboard to a discussion regarding the Scottish philos...
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...
In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...
determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...
rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...
He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...
In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...
personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...
discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...
a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...
would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...
all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...
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,...
they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
understand that Thoreau would believe that poets contribute a great deal. Hence, it is understandable why he makes such claims. Fi...
than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...
long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...
only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...
In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...
One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...
In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...
In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...
his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...
that it was necessary to vote. He felt that it was not the duty of the individual to try to make governments better or to try to...
ice cream may have a high opportunity cost. When considering the marginal principle the way in which different products are desig...