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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 ...

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

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...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

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...

Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

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...

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

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

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 ...

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

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...

In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...

In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...

Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...

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

In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...

In two pages this essay considers Descartes' doubt methodology as it is represented in this Meditation. There is no bibliography ...

In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...

In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...

In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...

nature and follow it. It will not be discovered in a rational, intellectualized society. Hume The foundation of Humes think...

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...

In five pages this paper considers the philosophical views of David Hume and Socrates regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation ...