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Essays 481 - 510
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...
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...
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...
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...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...
or observation. For example we can only argue that the mans eyes are blue by looking at his eyes. Here we have a statement that ne...
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, ...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...
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...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...
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...
Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....
In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...
director of our own narrative, but we can never say for certain how the story will end. Although we make plans, and try to foresee...
even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...
human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...