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supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

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...

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...

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...

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

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 ...

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...

that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...