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Good Taste and Art According to David Hume

In eleven pages this report discusses how Hume's skeptical views shaped his perceptions regarding good taste and art with the writ...

God According to David Hume

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

'Obligation of Promises' According to David Hume

It is here that the concept of utility arises. Hume asserts that qualities are valued either for their agreeableness, either to t...

Pre Socratic and Socratic Philosophical Differences

the soul. In understanding the influence the pre-Socratics had, it is beneficial to consider some of the major questions and the ...

American 'Palefaces' and 'Redskins' in Literature

In five pages this report discusses the 'pale face' or 'redskin' literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century with the 'pal...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

Love According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

Comparative Analysis of Plato's Apology and I.F. Stone's The Trial of Socrates

threatening. Instead of turning the anger they felt inward, they unleashed their fury outward onto Socrates, a convenient scapego...

Innocence Lost in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

Was Socrates a Patriot or a Traitor?

tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...

Whites and Blacks as ''Natural Enemies' According to David Walker

the oppression thrust upon them by an unyielding and self-appointed superior white race. Evolution has a significant amount to do...

Self Identity According to David Hume

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

Morality According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

the considerations surrounding his concepts of the mind and he supports his contentions with direct demonstrations of the applicab...

Truth According to David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Aristotle

discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...

Socrates' Arguments in Phaedo by Plato

soul has two principal parts. The first part of this argument is that nature inevitably follows a cyclical pattern. All vegetatio...

Prisoners Analyzed in Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave' in The Republic

In five pages an analysis evaluates the accuracy of Socrates' description of the cave's prisoners as 'like ourselves.' There are ...

Concepts Relating to Socrates and Plato

In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...

'Unexamined Life' Concept of Socrates

In eight pages this paper examines Socrates' philosophical views on self examination and the importance of motivation within the i...

Ascetic and Hedonistic Ideals in Protagoras by Plato

In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...

Socratic Philosophy and Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' views on morality with those of Friedrich Nietzsche as expressed in Birt...

Miracles According to David Hume

This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...

How to Use History According to David E. Sutton and Alexander and Sonia Alland

This is a research paper consisting of five pages that compares how history can serve as both guide in inspiration as illustrated ...

Henry the Fifth and Kingship

In six pages this research paper examines the concept of kingship as represented in the historical play Henry V by William Shakesp...

An Arabic Language Overview

In ten pages the language of Arabic is considered in terms of development that is not different according to socioeconomic classes...

Right and Wrong According to Philosophers W. David Ross and Thomas Hobbes

In five pages this essay considers right and wrong from Hobbes' 17th century perspectives and Ross's 20th century vantage point. ...

Literary Criticisms of the Style and Works of O. Henry

does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...

Open Mindedness and The Republic by Plato

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

Mr. Death Film and The Picture of Dorian Gray

In many ways, the evil and rotten-ness which the portrait comes to represent are exemplifying the monstrousness of society as a wh...

Breast Cancer and Treatment Alterations Due to Attitudes, Theories, and Concepts

also states that the intervention did not work ands came to the conclusion there was not treatment (American Cancer Society, 2005)...