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of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...

A 5 page review of the book by Thomas Spradley and James Spradley. 1 source....

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

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

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

than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...

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

long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...

only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...

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,...

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

of England (The American Revolution, 2007). Before the American Revolution he lived in America and was there when legal acts wer...

there, but the Kingdom of the Father is spread out on the earth and men do not see it." A short parable occurs early in Thomass ...

associates in Europe" he would refer "to blacks as lazy, slow, unable to reason, lacking in imagination and even spoke against the...

18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...

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

the United States. The book begins around the time he was elected as President, which took place at the end of the 18th century. I...

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

neighbors. Such things do happen. When life happens, it is often unique and has little reference to the past. Yet, in examining t...

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

may volunteer to go door to door to collect money for charity. Each makes use of leisure time. Yet, one might attach the actions o...

to change moral systems developed before him with complicity in an illegitimate process of reasoning" (p.6). Essentially, he is as...

one philosopher might say that it is always wrong to kill other people, or one might may qualify that idea by saying that it is al...

value the psychological and social factors which can equate with disease or infirmity. Nurses, although also trained primar...

style to be clear and unbiased. These were then categories by qualified psychologies into one of three groups, behavioural therapy...