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Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...

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

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

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

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...

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...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

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...

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...

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

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...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

from a state of freedom to a willingness to submit to the states authority? This is the underlying question in the majority of hi...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

This research paper discusses the positions espoused by classical economists Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo pertaini...

dominated by Aristotelianism (McMullen, 2002). Due to the dominance of Aristotelianism, the idea of mechanical philosophy did not...

Criminal justice in the United States is a litmus-test issue for liberals and conservatives. This paper discusses the differences ...

He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...

In five pages two of Descartes' arguments are analyzed in terms of the nature of object existence and the determination of dreamin...

In two pages this paper examines how the philosophies of these two theorists were influenced by history and their respective cultu...

In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...