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Justice Rules and David Hume

In five pages this report assesses David Hume's attitudes regarding jusice and examines why he labels it as an artificial virtue b...

Section IX of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

Compatibilism and David Hume

In seven pages this paper considers Hume's compatibilism philosophy and offers criticisms to examine how his position could be mod...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

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

Ethical Theories of David Hume

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...

Philosophy Defined

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

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...

Jacques Louis David's Painting, Jean Jacques Rousseau's Philosophy and Duty to the State

from a state of freedom to a willingness to submit to the states authority? This is the underlying question in the majority of hi...

Philosophy's Role and Defense of Socrates in Apology by Plato

In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...

Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...

Education and Philosophy

In nine pages this paper examines teaching philosophies in this overview that explores the relationship between philosophy and edu...

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....

Memory Role and Personal Identity

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

Film Sliding Doors, Determinism, and Free Will

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 ...

Knowledge and Philosophy

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

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...

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...

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 ...

Evil and Philosophy II

In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...

David Hume and Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...

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 ...

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...

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...

Philosophy and Ten Questions

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

'Self' and Existence

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...

Philosophical Arguments Pertaining to God's Existence

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

Romantic and Enlightenment Eras

In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...

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...

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...