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John Locke, Sex Offenders, and Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

You will then be able to extract supporting information as done here, and this example paper will indicate how to cite such source...

Ideas According to David Hume

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

Experience and Ideas According to John Locke

(Locke: The Origin of Ideas, 2003). Locke, unlike many of his peers, denied that certain knowledge was innate for human...

History of Humanism

many years, but started to become less open during the dark ages. It was at this time that the Christian church took control. The ...

Identity According to Risieri Frondizi and David Hume

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

'On the Immortality of the Soul' by David Hume

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,...

Skepticism of David Hume Answered by Immanuel Kant

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

Self Identity Problems

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

France of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Radicalism, and Liberalism

deemed it so. In any event, it appears that there is justification for others to rule, despite the inherent encroachment on the ...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

A Civic Project

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...

Life and Works of Scottish Philosopher David Hume

In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...

Presidential Campaigning, the Toulmin Argument, Jeremy Bentham, and David Hume

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...

US Constitution and its Origins

took awhile to get to the twentieth century. As we head into the twenty first, people continue to fight for the freedoms as did th...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century's Literary Political Obligations

In seven pages this paper examines the political obligations John Locke and early American leaders faced during this time period. ...

Historical Theories on Health, Education, Society and the Individual

In twelve pages this paper discusses how the nursing profession's health care workers can benefit from the educational theories of...

The Historical Roots of the Impetus for the Declaration of Independence

This six page paper traces the impetus for the U.S. Declaration of Independence to the Magna Carta and to the Bible itself. The ...

Moral Judgment, Sentiment, and Reason According to David Hume

In nine pages this research paper examines Hume's philosophical conclusions regarding moral judgments and the roles sentiment and ...

Miracles and David Hume

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

Philosophical Look at David Hume and Plato

In six pages this paper denotes similarities and differences in the philosophies of Plato and Hume regarding God, morality, and hu...

John Locke and Karl Marx on Private Property

It is labor, and thus the laborer "that puts the difference of value on everything." Locke answers the question of whether or not ...

Justice and What it Means

In twelve pages this paper examines how the meaning of justice is conveyed in the theories of Plato, John Locke, Friedrich Engels ...

Natural Government Perspectives of Jean Domat and John Locke

In five pages this paper compares the perspectives that are presented in On Social Order and Absolute Power by Jean Domat and Seco...

A Sovereign Philosophical View

In twenty pages the relationship that exists between natural law ans sovereignty is examined through such philosophical perspectiv...

Cause and Effect Attacks of David Hume

In eight pages Hume's counter philosophical arguments to causality are examined with supporting evidence offered by Immanuel Kant ...

Cause and Effect Attacked by David Hume II

In eight pages Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding serves as a springboard to a discussion regarding the Scottish philos...

Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

In five pages Hume's views on morality are discussed in terms of their origins and arguments against limiting self serving actions...

Locke, Rousseau and Authority To Punish

In five pages authority regarding criminal behavior punishment is considered within the contexts of philosophers Jean Jacques Rous...

Man's Interests, Politics, and the Perspectives of Niccolo Machiavelli and John Locke

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and the Social Contract of John Locke in a cons...

Marijuana Legality and the Views of John Locke and Plato

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the government is justified in legally regulating marijuana use according to th...