Essays 61 - 90
In six pages this paper discusses how Hume critiques man's knowledge regarding causal relationships which is based on the philosop...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...
ever voted, by a tenth part of those who were bound to pay obedience to it " (Hume PG). One can take this notion a step further an...
This essay responds to several issues concerning King David. What was the Davidic covenant. Since David sinned, why is he consider...
In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...
if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...
In five pages this essay subdivided into 2 sections considers the merits of action research in a new math class for high school st...
This essay presents a self-analysis with a personal reflection. The analysis focuses on the writer's adult development. Analysis c...
This essay presents the personal reflection of the writer/tutor in regards to three chapters of Lovin's text. The chapters pertain...
pundits or the mainstream media happen to be handing out at the moment. This is a process that rekindles a "child-like--but by no ...
to be called "transcendentalism" (5). The individuals who wrote about this faculty referred to it by different names -- e.g., "sp...
This writer/tutor does not, of course, have any idea how the student feels on this topic, or, for that matter, the specific course...
an AIDS sufferer can speak to the weight loss, weakness, and increasing helplessness that the disease engenders. What was it and h...
that surely they had experienced unjust realities, but not really. In short, while this reader/writer has experienced the death of...
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,...
of another. You dont look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, s...
In five pages this essay discusses Hume's opposition to the a posteriori argument regarding the divine 'Designer' of the cosmos. ...
This paper examines how in Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection, Immanuel Kant refutes Locke and Leibniz's theories in 5 pages....
of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...
from a state of freedom to a willingness to submit to the states authority? This is the underlying question in the majority of hi...
but to a different question than the teacher had in mind; the boy was counting the surface area rather than the cubes. The questio...
describes his economic class and the perplexed foot player who has difficulty naming one means of transportation. Again, the humor...
philosophy itself has changed" (#47) over the centuries (47). This field no longer seeks universal truth and wisdom, it is little ...
Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...
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...
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...