Essays 31 - 60
able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...
In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of David Hume and Thomas Aquinas regarding religion and ultimate...
that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...
defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...
In five pages this report compares Hume and Berkeley in terms of their philosophies' differences and similarities particularly as ...
battle it out in the budget, bridge engineers are happily moving over to other regional agency posts for as much as twenty-five pe...
hit with a severe energy crisis, driving costs up while the residents of the state suffered rolling black-outs (6). Davis was cri...
Golf Challenge, which he says is a true game simulation. Not only is the sim instructive, but also fun (CyberGuy). You can even pl...
or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...
10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...
This 3 page paper gives a summary of the speech given to Congress by Jefferson Davis over property owning in relation to slaves. T...
a philosopher, Philo a skeptic and Demea a theologian. Well see if this is correct and analyze one of the arguments. Cleanthes O...
In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...
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...
his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...
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...
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...
with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...
questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...
some strategy that starts from other beliefs that we have. Inference, for example, is such a strategy. One might infer that it is ...
be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...
than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
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,...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
style to be clear and unbiased. These were then categories by qualified psychologies into one of three groups, behavioural therapy...
would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...