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This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...
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...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...
at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...
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...
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...
that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
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, ...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
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 ...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...
In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...
This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...
This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...
In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...
In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
In five pages this paper discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...