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Philosophical 'Argument from Design' Argument

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

Why Utility Pleases by David Hume and Sympathy's Role

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

Human Soul, Event Causes, and the Philosophies of David Hume and Immanuel Kant

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

Philosophy and Business Ethics

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

Moral Defects and Virtues

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...

Philosophers on Dualism

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

Components of the Philosophy of David Hume

In five pages this paper discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...

David Hume and John Locke on Perception

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

Racism and David Hume

In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

David Hume on Reason

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...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Questions on the Philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Sartre Answered

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

David Hume and John Locke on the Certainty Concept

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

Philosophers on Moral Theory

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

Christian Views on Evil

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 ...

Introduction to Major Philosophers and Their Philosophies

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

David Hume and How Morality Originated

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

Free Will and Liberty According to David Hume

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...

Nature of Causation According to David Hume

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

Property and Justice According to David Hume and Jean Jacques Rousseau

nature and follow it. It will not be discovered in a rational, intellectualized society. Hume The foundation of Humes think...

Historical Context Regarding Philosophy's Intent

In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

Comparing Ethical Perspectives of David Hume and Immanuel Kant

Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...

Causality and David Hume

that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...

Philosophical Perspectives on Passion and Human Happiness

In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...

Aristotle & Hume On Ethics

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

God's Existence and the Design Argument

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

Induction Problem and David Hume

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

Is There a Population Problem?

This research paper discusses the positions espoused by classical economists Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo pertaini...

Philosophers Compared

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

Eternal Happiness and God

In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...