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

In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...

In five pages this paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

In three pages this report discusses the utilitarian philosophy of David Hume in a consideration of the role of sympathy in 'Why U...

This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

In five pages this report examines the assertion that there is a separation of the body and soul and that each event is attributed...

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...

will find the hope that America said it could offer, but also the realities that make a capitalistic society oppressive and degrad...

sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...

humorous realities. For example, we have the Great Belcher, whose words are sometimes nothing more than a burp. This is humorous, ...

Such is the case for "America Dreams..through the decades", a web site developed by the Library of Congress. The "America D...

how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...