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This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

the April sky was not a thing of air and gas. Rather, it lay like a solid ceiling of slate, pressing the living down into the prai...

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

of checks and balances. The system was seen as sound as if a defendant was guilt the prosecution should be able to build a strin...

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...

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

In five pages Hume's views on free will and determinism are examined within the context of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandi...

In five pages this paper discusses the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's play in terms of plot and performance....

In five pages this essay discusses Hume's opposition to the a posteriori argument regarding the divine 'Designer' of the cosmos. ...

In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...

of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

This paper written in a letter style consists of five pages and examines the contention that David Hum was an atheist and then con...

In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

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 essay discusses how private property is conceptualized by John Locke and Plato with the writer's own p...

This paper addresses various literary works relating to human behavior and society. The author discusses George Orwell's work Sho...

This research report looks at Hume and Descartes and their ideas about reason. It is claimed that Hume minimized the use of reason...

comparison of the two works, illustrating what one can learn of South Africa through having two different sources of information, ...

of sorts, between the people and the legislators. General will, then is the majority desire for a certain way of life or course o...

In six pages this paper examines how human nature was perceived by Schiller and Rousseau. Three sources are cited in the bibliogr...

our limitations. If an individual is judging who is guilty of a crime with a choice of two people, and has the knowledge of the ...

this emphasis on "relativity." In comparison, Alexander Pope (1688-1744), the British poet and philosopher described the universe...

In five pages this paper examines David Souter the man and the Supreme Court Justice and what can be learned by his position in ...

basis of this essay (1995). He maintains the blank state hypothesis, believing that people are born with minds akin to a blank, wh...

because although God has given man great riches, he has limited it: "The same law of nature, that does by this means give us prop...