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In three pages this report discusses the utilitarian philosophy of David Hume in a consideration of the role of sympathy in 'Why U...

This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...

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

at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...

this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

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

IQ and has long been a widely used method, particularly with regard to gifted or educationally-challenged children. The results o...

"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

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

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

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

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...

In six pages this paper examines how the morality theories of these philosophers can be practically applied. Two sources are cite...