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the April sky was not a thing of air and gas. Rather, it lay like a solid ceiling of slate, pressing the living down into the prai...

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...

discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...

mean "The Way and its Power" (Rasmussen, 2002). The philosophy which would result did so in direct response to a number of social...

the immortality of the soul. The main points are as follows. First of all, Hume points out that the soul is said to be immaterial,...

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

what is real and what is perceived, and the one is not dependent on the other. Naturalism states that it is the laws of nature whi...

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

In eleven pages this report discusses how Hume's skeptical views shaped his perceptions regarding good taste and art with the writ...

It is here that the concept of utility arises. Hume asserts that qualities are valued either for their agreeableness, either to t...

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

This paper written in a letter style consists of five pages and examines the contention that David Hum was an atheist and then con...

In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

In five pages this essay discusses Hume's opposition to the a posteriori argument regarding the divine 'Designer' of the cosmos. ...

long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...

present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...

be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...

must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...

In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...