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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...

Influence of David Hume on Immanuel Kant

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

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...

Miracles According to David Hume

This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...

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...

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...

God's Existence Arguments

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

Comparative Analysis of Virtue and Vice

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

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...

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 ...

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...

David Hume and Thomas Aquinas on God's Existence

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

Man Philosophically Defined

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

Identity in the Novel as a Philosophical Exploration

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

Self Identity According to David Hume

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

Humanity According to David Hume and John Locke

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

Philosophy Q and A

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...

David Hume and Immanuel Kant on Freedom of the Will

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

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 ...

Artistic Similarities Jean Jacques Rousseau and Jacques Louis David

of color to drawing (2002). The economy of statement had been seen to be in line with keeping with the new severity of taste (20...

The Greatest King of Israel

This essay responds to several issues concerning King David. What was the Davidic covenant. Since David sinned, why is he consider...

David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize Winning Play Turned Movie Glengarry Glen Ross

In five pages this paper discusses the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's play in terms of plot and performance....

US Independence and the Ideology that Achieved It

This paper reviews the book 1776 by author David McCullough. No additional sources are listed. ...

A Review of Gabriel's Story

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...

A Review of Eyewitness to Power

A 5 page review of the book by David Gergen. 1 source....

Art Weinstein's Market Segmentation

In three pages this paper compares Market Segmentation by Art Weinstein with Theodore Levitt's The Marketing Imagination and David...

Theodore Levitt's Marketing Imagination

In three pages Levitt's text is compared with others on the subject such as Art Weinstein's Market Segmentation and David Ogilvy's...

The Abandonment of the Jews by David Wyman

In eight pages this text by David Wyman is analyzed in terms of a discussion of the opinions expressed by the author....

David Auburn: "Proof"

obviously cannot be separated from the field of mathematics. How do the specific techniques and rigors of higher-order mathematic...