YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :David Hume and How Morality Originated
Essays 61 - 90
"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...
this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...
In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...
In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...
In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...
In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...
In five pages this paper discusses how doubt and reality is understood by philosopher Rene Descartes with his argument flaws also ...
nature and follow it. It will not be discovered in a rational, intellectualized society. Hume The foundation of Humes think...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...
In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...
In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...
that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...
In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...
In five pages this paper considers the philosophical views of David Hume and Socrates regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation ...
In five pages this report examines the assertion that there is a separation of the body and soul and that each event is attributed...
and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...
This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...
In three pages this report discusses the utilitarian philosophy of David Hume in a consideration of the role of sympathy in 'Why U...
In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...
In five pages this paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...
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...
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, ...