Essays 91 - 120
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...
Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...
"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...
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...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
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 ...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
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...
that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
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...
In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...
This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...
In five pages this paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...
In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...
In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...
This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...