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that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...

In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...

In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...

In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...

Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

(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...

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

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...

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

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

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

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

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