Essays 61 - 90
In five pages David Hume's definition of morality as a sympathy concept is applied to his contention that moral views do not stem ...
In five pages this essay discusses Hume's opposition to the a posteriori argument regarding the divine 'Designer' of the cosmos. ...
In six pages Scottish philosopher David Hume's skepticism concerning the existence of miracles is discussed which although interes...
In five pages this report assesses David Hume's attitudes regarding jusice and examines why he labels it as an artificial virtue b...
In 5 pages this paper argues that the so-called Scottish Enlightenment was neither Scottish nor particularly enlightened with Ferg...
This is a 5 page critical review that criticizes the nation's system of juvenile justice and its many shortfalls, emphasizing the ...
with whatever is remote and extraordinary; and running without control into the most distant parts of space and time in order to a...
In five pages Hume's views on free will and determinism are examined within the context of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandi...
In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...
In five pages David Hume's contention that there is no God is countered by an opposing argument. Two sources are cited in the bib...
In eight pages this research paper considers philosophical perspectives regarding God's existence and includes David Hume's opposi...
In six pages this research paper considers An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in an analysis of Locke's representation of how...
In eight pages Hume's counter philosophical arguments to causality are examined with supporting evidence offered by Immanuel Kant ...
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...
his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...
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,...
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 ...
style to be clear and unbiased. These were then categories by qualified psychologies into one of three groups, behavioural therapy...
be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...
He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...
controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...
This research report looks at Hume and Descartes and their ideas about reason. It is claimed that Hume minimized the use of reason...
of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...
In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...
determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...
for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...