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Excessive Skepticism and David Hume

able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...

David Hume's Critique of Rene Descartes' Existence of God 'Proof'

In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...

Immanuel Kant's Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

In five pages both philosophical arguments regarding moral judgment are compared along with a consideration of why each would disa...

Philosopher David Hume's Ideologies

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

David Hume's 'Miraculous' Philosophy

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

John Locke and David Hume's Views on Free Will

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

Fallout of Terrorism and Arson, 2001 and 1933

the Nazi party, as evidenced by the outcome of the General Election of November 1932 (Gellately 76). The outcome of that election...

Views of Popper and Schlick on Metaphysics

In seven pages Popper's falsification and verification comparison along with Schlick's theory on verification are examined in this...

Falsifiability and Karl Popper

at the time of his own writing (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002). What Popper was doing was going against the commonly a...

Personal Identity's Growth and Development

Relationship to the body Identity, whether we recognize it or not, starts with the physical body. Biblical writers often used th...

Two Personal Essays

This 4 page paper is comprised of two personal essays in response to specific prompts. The first is about the student’s intended m...

Donating Eggs or Sperm

risks because it involves taking fertility drugs to increase the viable eggs, and then a surgical procedure to extract the eggs fr...

Social Identity and Personal Identity

the basis of obvious characteristics such as race. Interaction with other groups is not even a prerequisite for such categorizati...

Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality by John Perry and Self Identity

a persons soul retain identity after the body is gone? In other words, even if the soul survived but none of that element which wa...

HUmans are More Alike Than Different

was 500,000. By 1998, that number soared to 5.5 million households. That was a 72 percent increase. The number of births to unwed ...

An Epistle to a Great Psychologist

In a letter of three pages, the author writes a personal epistle to Dr. Freud. This letter reflects a personal response to the th...

Fleming's Penicillin Discovery and Popper's Refutations and Conjectures Model

knowledge; from this perspective, we would say that Newtonian physics was the paradigm which was overturned by Einstein, and Einst...

Identity - Article Summaries and Two Questions

the need and perception ideas change, but evidences the fact that they do not, and ideas remain. Lunbeck, Elizabeth 2000. Identit...

Philosophical Essay Applications

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

Comparative Philosophical Analysis of David Hume and George Berkeley

In five pages this report compares Hume and Berkeley in terms of their philosophies' differences and similarities particularly as ...

Freud, Nietzsche, and Marx's Contemporary Attacks on Religion

In ten pages this paper assesses the religious attacks Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Karl Marx launched to determine whe...

Sociological Perspective of 911

the rich, United States does not do enough to help the poor, but rather advocates for multinationals. Globalization has seemingly ...

Examination of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

(not many women were in places of ruling in those days), the people who controlled the production of product and the money made. T...

Class Struggles, and the Value Labor Theory of Karl Marx

workers, meaning wages begin to decline. Also inherent in such a scenario involves promotion of cheap-wage goods (imports) to furt...

Knowledge and Philosophy

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

Detailed Analysis of Plato's Cave Allegory

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

Feminist Movement and Theories of Karl Marx

DR. GOOD: Ladies and gentleman, you all know why you are here. Through the miracle of science, the great Karl Marx has been brou...

Existence of God in Swinburne, Rowe, and Hume

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

Causation and David Hume

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

St. Anselm's Ontological Argument from Philosophical Perspectives

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...