Essays 31 - 60
Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...
Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....
Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of Gods existence and the problem of evil, the journey of understanding...
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...
it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...
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...
to change moral systems developed before him with complicity in an illegitimate process of reasoning" (p.6). Essentially, he is as...
the importance of direct experience in the formulation of knowledge, is at the core of Humes overarching skepticism, which makes a...
or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...
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...
do believe that knowledge comes from testing, such as in science, and has little to do with experience. This is because experience...
In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...
In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...
classic volume, the philosopher demonstrates that people know the causes of events but that this knowledge is really perhaps based...
a philosopher, Philo a skeptic and Demea a theologian. Well see if this is correct and analyze one of the arguments. Cleanthes O...
day. There is no reason to speculate that it will not rise tomorrow. Hence, there is a quandary. There is logic that considers sci...
director of our own narrative, but we can never say for certain how the story will end. Although we make plans, and try to foresee...
this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...
his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...
made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...
One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...
More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...
In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...
with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
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,...
they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...
present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...