Essays 181 - 210
men for the society in which they develop. Youngs concepts of justice and mans role in society appear to challenge those prese...
of participating in Forms consists (as he holds in the Phaedo) in taking the Forms apart, with the result that nothing remains: 1)...
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...
This paper written in a letter style consists of five pages and examines the contention that David Hum was an atheist and then con...
In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...
In eleven pages this report discusses how Hume's skeptical views shaped his perceptions regarding good taste and art with the writ...
It is here that the concept of utility arises. Hume asserts that qualities are valued either for their agreeableness, either to t...
In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...
discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...
even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...
He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...
personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...
In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...
rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...
would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...
a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
In three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...
imposed boundaries. He asks, "What sort of a country is that where the huckleberry fields are private property? When I pass such f...
combination of male spirituality and a feminine soul. He explains that just as women are incomplete without their male spirituali...
against "dangerous" elements from around the world, such as French and Irish sympathizers who disagreed with the Adams democracy a...
This paper is made up of two parts. The first section describes the writing process that the writer/tutor utilizes and this can be...
as they are today. For example, it was important to note how the GI Bill was an invaluable program for decades; however, I felt i...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the five theories of geography as it relates to the city of Coronado, California. This pape...
This 3 page paper gives an example of a reflection essay concerning the individual and cultural dimensions within America. This pa...
This paper offers ten brief essays, with each essay roughly one-page in length and pertaining to issues that addressed in Asian Am...
made to render the greatest happiness for the greatest number. That is all that utilitarianism is equated with. There are differen...
American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...
States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...