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Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...

this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

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...

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

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

In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...

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...

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

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

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

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 ...

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

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

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 ...

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

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

illustrates his stance which is that people, even if they are lacking, do not have the right to coerce the wealthy. Thus, if someo...

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...

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

good gifts to their friends and family but often do not have the expenses which would allow them to do so. However, people may use...

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