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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...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...
know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...
examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...
He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...
This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...
This research report examines ideas by Descartes and internal aspects of one's being are explored. True knowledge is one concept h...
In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...
In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...
In five pages this paper discusses how Descartes' philosophy of reality is presented in the 1641 publication of The Meditations. ...
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...
ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...
to change moral systems developed before him with complicity in an illegitimate process of reasoning" (p.6). Essentially, he is as...
one philosopher might say that it is always wrong to kill other people, or one might may qualify that idea by saying that it is al...
a philosopher, Philo a skeptic and Demea a theologian. Well see if this is correct and analyze one of the arguments. Cleanthes O...
any attempt to model understanding of God on the basis of a study of humanity is simply untenable. What is the soul of man? A mixt...
neighbors. Such things do happen. When life happens, it is often unique and has little reference to the past. Yet, in examining t...
day. There is no reason to speculate that it will not rise tomorrow. Hence, there is a quandary. There is logic that considers sci...
may volunteer to go door to door to collect money for charity. Each makes use of leisure time. Yet, one might attach the actions o...
with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
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,...
some strategy that starts from other beliefs that we have. Inference, for example, is such a strategy. One might infer that it is ...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...
have been the fact that the individual has MS or CP or some other disease. Another reason might have been that they simply were no...