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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

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...

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...

"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 ...

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

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...

speech. "These in the flame with ceaseless goals deplore/The ambush of the horse, that opend wide/A portal for the goodly seed to ...

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

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

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

further emphasized when Bensons claims the following: "The various critical re-creations of the Pardoner tend to be ingenious, and...