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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...

Second Chapter of Walden by Henry David Thoreau

define what is not essential in our lives we can more accurately see what is important. For example, if we can get to a place wher...

Night Below Station Street by David Adams Richards

first telling the reader the reactions of one character, and then another. For example, the writer tells the reader about Ritas fe...

David Hume's 'Miraculous' Philosophy

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

British Fashion Photographer David Bailey

prospect of becoming a photographer became less remote, perhaps even attainable" (Kodak, 2003). Bailey then finished with his n...

Westphalian Sovereignty by David Held

to do as they like without any interference from other nations. And it is precisely this thinking, Held argues, that has to stop b...

David Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and Symbolism

1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...

Reality Perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume

made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...

David Panton and Rex Nettleford's Jamaica's Michael Manley

their export, while "competing-without the benefit of protective tariffs-against other British colonies" (Panton; Nettleford, 1993...

Cesar Chavez, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau on Nonviolence

perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...

Above All Earthly Pow'rs By David F. Wells

is only one truth and it is this truth that all Christian churches should be promoting. Citing another author, Wells reports that ...

Rationalism and the Concepts of Rene Descartes and David Hume

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

The Working Poor Invisible in America by David Shipler

hes already delivered powerful works on the Middle East (Arab and Jew) and race (A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in Amer...

Evaluating David Benetar's Article on Existence

In five pages an article in which Benetar claims it is better not to be born along with an offered opposing position is examined. ...

King of the World by David Remnick

knew who he was. He relied on the fact that people loved and adored him. For the most part we, as readers and people with knowledg...

'What is Postmodern Illness?' by David Morris

time, cats were associated with Satanism. One medieval pope actually issued a decree that all the cats in Christendom should be ki...

Communities of Violence by David Nirenberg

the Shepherds Crusade, as Nirenberg posits that this was, indeed, the case, that is, that the poor people who enacted the violence...

John Locke and David Hume's Views on Free Will

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

Section IX of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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

Religions of Mesoamerica by David Carrasco

sun traveled at night" (Carrasco 35). The game was viewed as a representation of a cosmic struggle in which the players competed t...

David Brooks's Bobos in Paradise

In three pages the reader's reaction to Brooks' book after reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich is considered. Three so...

How Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Define 'Self Reliance'

emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...

Reviewing David L. Carlton's Mill and Town in South Carolina

confrontational. Never before had an actual middle class been so established and now, with the opening of the mills, a middle cla...

Carter Beats the Devil by Glenn David Gold

At the time that Harding insisted volunteering to be in the performance, Secret Service agent Jack Griffin did not like the idea ...

Palestine and Israel Camp David II Summit and America's Role

Authority leader Yassir Arafat to broker a peace deal in the Mid-East. The two parties came close to finalizing a deal, and then t...

Thomas Aquinas and David Hume on Religious Morality

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

Rickshaw Beijing by David Strand

time these individuals and their groups began to organize to the point where they became politically active and engaged in the soc...

Lawrence of Arabia by Filmmaker David Lean

Passage to India. However, his creative pinnacle is largely acknowledged to be the wildly successful (both critically as well as ...

Sexuality and Gender in David Henry Hwang’s Madame Butterfly

roles and how to identify themselves accordingly (Warmoth). Through experience, interaction, and acculturation, they develop perc...

Failure of the Israeli-Palestinian Summit, Camp David, 2000

in an article by Jeremy Pressman. He says that most people believe that "Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak made a generous offer t...